American Beauty
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American Beauty

William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman

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  2. English
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American Beauty

William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman

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A discussion of the work of William Carlos Williams, an early American poet and physician, as it relates to that of Walt Whitman. Traces the influence of Whitman's work on Williams, and reflects on the historical context of the time he was writing in.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231877749
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. A Whitman for Moderns
  5. 1. The Problem of an American Self
  6. 2. The Road to Whitman
  7. 3. Two Whitmans
  8. Part II. Reading Williams
  9. 4. A Relative Formalism: Relativity, Metrics, and the Separate Self
  10. 5. Williams and the American Beauty: The Objective Use of Words
  11. Part III. The Two Whitmans Joined
  12. 6. Whitman in Paterson
  13. 7. Doctor Paterson
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index