The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

by William Carlos Williams

Book Overview

So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811211886
• ISBN13: 9780811211888
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

poetry

amazing. wcwis one of me favorites and all his poetry from stated years are here. splendid

one of our great poets

how do you discuss 23 years, the last half of a great poet's long career, in such a short allotment of space. you really can't. i will say that some of his better works is in the first volume. that isn't much more i can say than pick up his collected works.

by a poet of instinct and high sensibility

Dr. Williams was not trained as a poet, unlike the case of Pound (his friend) or Eliot (his "enemy"). He was thus fortunatrly refrained from any academic formula that might prevent one from being a great writer. Emily Dickison was that way made a great poet as was the case of Williams. But instinct and high sensitivity can provide one with fleeting inspiration for writing poetry usually of short piece, instead of "long-winded" ones. Paterson has some technical flaws. Yet taken into seperate parts, it still destinguishes itself. One doubt whether these poets can be great novelists at the same time. Writing novels needs more knowledge in composition, needs "operations" on the skills. In this sense, Williams and Dickinson differ from Eliot and Pound.