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The Birth of the Imagination: William Carlos Williams on Form

The Birth of the Imagination: William Carlos Williams on Form

Holsapple, Bruce

Hardcover

Series: Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0826357601
ISBN13: 9780826357601
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Dec 1 2016
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
William Carlos Williams first spoke to the issue of form shortly after the publication of The Wanderer in 1914--his move to vers libre--and didn't stop talking about form until his death in 1963. His poetry shows, decade after decade, persistent formal innovation. Bruce Holsapple's The Birth of the Imagination relates the form, structure, and content of Williams's poetry to demonstrate how his formal concerns bear upon the content, namely, how form testifies to a vision that the style verifies. Tracing the development of Williams's work from Poems in 1909 through The Wedge in 1944, Holsapple aligns emerging aesthetic concepts and procedures with shifts in Williams's writing to disclose how meaning becomes refigured, affecting what the poems say. While focusing primarily on Williams's experimental works, including the novellas, this innovative study charts how significant features in Williams's poetry result from specific imaginative practices.

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