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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Scope|Circulating
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Scope: The Cubists and Expressionist painters influenced William Carlos Williams. He believed that the purpose of poetry is to express universal truths. Subsequently he regarded the poem as “ a machine made of words.” Williams’ verse broke from the traditional iambic pentameter. His famous epic poem entitled Paterson comprised five books of poetry.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of William Carlos Williams works are listed in our online catalog under, “Williams, William Carlos,” and under individual titles.
Books written by and about William Carlos Williams have the call number(s)
PS 3545 I544
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
Coles, Robert. William Carlos Williams:
The Knack of Survival in America. New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1983.
Gish, Robert. William Carlos Williams:
A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne
Publishers, 1989.
Hatlen, Burton, ed. William Carlos Williams and the
Language of Poetry. Hanover:
University Press of New England, 2002.
Mariani, Paul L. William Carlos Williams:
A New World Naked. New York: Norton,
1990.
Mazzaro, Jerome. William Carlos Williams:
The Later Poems. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1973.
Williams, William Carlos. Selected
Essays of William Carlos Williams. New York:
New Directions, 1969.
Williams, William Carlos. The
Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams. New York:
New Directions Pub. Corp; 1984.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. These resources provide an overview or summary of the topic.
The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF PS 303.C64 1993 The Columbia History of American
Poetry
REF PR 502.C85 Critical Survey of Poetry
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography
vol. 4 American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939
REF PN 771/M3 1991 Major 20th-Century Writers
WEB SITES
Modern American poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm#w
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Updated
02/08/2007
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