William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
by Paul L. Mariani
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century.Paterson, Williams's epic masterpiece, raised everyday American speech to the highest levels of poetic imagination. A finalist for the national Book Award and aNew York Times Notable Book,William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked is a remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship. From a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies to an show more extraordinary revolutionary, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language in this definitive masterwork. show lessTags
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Excellent biography. The author clearly loves and understands Williams' poetry and the book is a good guide to his works, especially Paterson.
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Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English at Boston College and the author of eighteen books, including seven volumes of poetry, as well as biographies of Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and William Carlos Williams, the last a National Book Award finalist.
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- William Carlos Williams
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- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 811.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century 1900-1945
- LCC
- PS3545 .I544 .Z628 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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