Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams

Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams

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This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955), originally published by Random House.

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Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry by William Carlos Williams

This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955), originally published by Random House. In these books, Dr. Williams perfected his variable foot metric and achieved full mastery of the American idiom which was his lifelong first concern. Among the poems of this period is the long Asphodel, That Greeny Flower which W. H. Auden has called one of the most beautiful love poems in the language. Pictures from Brueghel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry only two months after William Carlos Williams' death on March 4, 1963.
Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.
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ISBN 13 9780811202343
ISBN 10 0811202348
Title Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry
Author William Carlos Williams
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published 1967-02-01
Number of pages 184
Prizes Winner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1963
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.