Spring and All

Spring and All
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Publisher : Dover Publications
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9780486826929
ISBN-13 : 0486826929
Rating : 4/5 (929 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Spring and All by : William Carlos Williams

Download or read book Spring and All written by William Carlos Williams and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavily influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," the poems of Spring and All express the author's beliefs about the role and form of art in a modern context. William Carlos Williams offers an intensely stylized set of exercises in reduction that capture, in his words, "the immediacy of experiences." Sections of vivid, sensuous prose — described by the poet as "a mixture of philosophy and nonsense"—alternate with straightforward free verse that explores the creative uses of imagination and the power of language. "Spring and All," the title work of this 1923 collection, represents Williams's first major achievement as a poet, and was praised by The New York Times as one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century. This groundbreaking compilation also features some of the poet's best-known verse, including the modernist masterpieces: "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To Elsie."


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