The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939

William Carlos Williams

New Directions Publishing, 1986 - Literary Criticism - 579 pages

To enable readers to more fully understand the extent of Williams radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, is being reissued. This first volume covers the years 1909 through 1939, beginning with the first collection of poems Williams wished to preserve, The Tempers, and includes successive volumes through Adam & Eve and The City, with their contents intact. Uncollected poems of each period are inserted in order of first publication. This careful attention to chronology enables the reader to chart the large contours of Williams' early career and also appreciate the enormous advances in technique he made during his very first decade as a poet. ISBN 0-8112-0999-7: $35.00.

Contents

• Poplars of the meadow: 13
• The Uses of Poetry: 21
• De Gustibus: 25
• Idyl Wine of the grey sky: 43
• Grotesque: 49
• Sick African: 59
• AL QUE QUIERE 1917: 61
• You have come between me: 121
• St Francis Einstein of the Daffodils first version: 130
• SPRING AND ALL 1923: 175
• Wild Orchard: 239
• From a Book: 248
• Interests of 1926: 258
• Emily Dickinson Wellcome: 274
• The Conservation of the Human SubSpecies: 281
• THE DESCENT OF WINTER 1928: 289
• Question and Answer: 321
• Full Moon: 336
• Rain: 343
• AN EARLY MARTYR AND OTHER POEMS 1935: 375
• ADAM EVE THE CITY 1936: 403
• The dawn is upon us: 427
• The Young Cat and the Chrysanthemums: 439
• A Note on the Text: 467
• And Thus with All Praise: 475
• Death Hes dead 346: 530
• Tables of Contents for Collected Poems 19211931: 549
• Three Additional Poems: 566
• Index of Titles: 573
• Index of First Lines: 579

About the author

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." Arthur Walton Litz, Jr. was born on October 31, 1929. He was an American literary historian and critic who served as professor of English Literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993. He is the author or editor of over twenty collections of literary criticism. Litz graduated from Princeton University in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University while studying on a Rhodes Scholarship at Merton College in 1951-54. He became the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton in 1956. He was named to the Eastman Visiting Professorship at Balliol College, Oxford in 1989. Bread Loaf professor from the early 1970s through the early 1990s and a literary historian and critic who served as professor of English literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993, Arthur Litz, Jr. died on June 4, 2014, at University Medical Center of Princeton in New Jersey.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939; Literature Online - Twentieth-Century American Poetry; New Directions book; Volume 1 of The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, William Carlos Williams
• Author: William Carlos Williams
• Editors: A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1986
• ISBN: 0811209997, 9780811209991
• Length: 579 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General