Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
A collection of poetry by William Carlos Williams whose early work was influenced by Pound and the Imagists. Subsequently he discarded imagism as possessing "no formal necessity implicit in it" and his own poetically guiding concept "no ideas but in things" dictated his poetry.
William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. He lived there most of his life, practising medicine as a paediatrician. While studying at the Pennsylvania Medical School he became a friend of Ezra Pound and H. Doolittle, and was deeply influenced by Imagism. The limitations of Imagism, however, soon led him to launch his own campaign to 'create somehow by intense, individual effort, a new - and American - poetic language.'
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140183948 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140183949 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-01-25 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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