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William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963)
American poet and prose writer. Modernist, imagist.
Author's life and works
Short introduction from Poets.org
"Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963" from Literature Online Biography
"William Carlos Williams" from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 54: American Poets, 1880-1945, 1987.
William Carlos Williams from An Introduction to Poetry
Paris Review Interview
William Carlos Williams reading his poem ”To Elsie”
Spring and All (1923)
Complete text of "Spring and All"
"Ch. 3: Open to the Weather" from Twayne's United States Authors. Analyzes several poems in depth.
Commentary on "To Elsie" "Introduction to James Clifford's The Predicament of Culture - 'The Pure Products Go Crazy'"
"Critical views on Spring and All" From Modern American Poetry
"'A Whole Synthesis of His Time': Political Ideology and Cultural Politics in the Writings of William Carlos Williams, 1929–939" Article by Bob Johnson, University of California, Irvine, from American Quarterly, 2002.
William Carlos Williams reading his poem ”To Elsie”
Full text of some poems from Spring and All (1923)
"To a Solitary Disciple"
"1. Spring and All"
"2. The Pot of Flowers"
"3. The Farmer"
"4. Flight to the City"
"5. The Black Winds"
"6. To Have Done Nothing"
"7. The Rose (The rose is obsolete)"
"26. At the Ball Game("The crowd at the ball game"
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"Full text of poem
"An overview of 'The Red Wheelbarrow'" by Steven Monte, from Poetry for Students, Gale, 1997.
"Williams's The Red Wheelbarrow" by Quentin Youngberg,from Explicator, Spring 2000
18. “To Elsie” ("The pure products of America...")
William Carlos Williams reading his poem ”To Elsie”
Commentary on "To Elsie" "Introduction to James Clifford's The Predicament of Culture - 'The Pure Products Go Crazy'"
webcast symposium on William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie" with Al Filreis, Bob Perelman, Kristen Gallagher and Shawn Walker at the Kelly Writers House, by Penn University
General Criticism
“William Carlos Williams in a World of Painters” by Bonnie Costello from The Boston Review
Author and period links
"American Modernism and the Poetics of Identity" article by Walter Benn Michaels, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
A Brief Guide to Imagism from Poets.org
Link to An Introduction to Poetry
"The Local Doctor: William Carlos Williams From A Survey of 20th Century American Literature and Culture
The William Carlos Williams Review
"Spotlight on William Carlos Williams" from Learner.org
"William Carlos Williams" from Modern American Poetry, a companion site to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
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