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The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry

The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry

Copestake, Ian D.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 5

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1571134816
ISBN13: 9781571134813
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Nov 1 2010
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress.

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of American poetry in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. His simple language and focus on the familiar objects and voices of everyday life pulled poetry out of the past and restored its ability to express contemporary experience. Williams believed passionately in poetry's usefulness, abhorring its perception as an esoteric pursuit and insisting on the impact it could have on the life of a reader if only made relevant to his or her experience. Examining the sources of this belief, Ian Copestake breaks new ground by tracing the enduring impact of Williams's youthful experience of Unitarianism on his poetry and arguing that Williams is a poet in an Emersonian tradition.

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