Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963

Overview

Works:	2,223 works in 5,373 publications in 7 languages and 177,337 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Fiction Autobiographies Literature Short stories Domestic fiction History Essays
Roles:	Author, Librettist, Editor, Translator, Performer, Lyricist, Other, Author of introduction, Dedicatee, Recipient, Contributor, Honoree, Signer, Narrator, Speaker, Author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Classifications:	PS3545.I544, 811.52

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Most widely held works about William Carlos Williams

A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams by Jennifer Bryant( Book )
William Carlos Williams by Thomas R Whitaker( Book )
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )
William Carlos Williams : a collection of critical essays by J. Hillis Miller( Book )
William Carlos Williams by John Malcolm Brinnin( Book )

Apocalypse and after : modern strategy and postmodern tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky by Bruce Comens( )
Literary admirers of Alfred Stieglitz by F. Richard Thomas( )
A usable past : essays on modern & contemporary poetry by Paul L Mariani( )
Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s by Milton A Cohen( )
William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture by Brian A Bremen( )
William Carlos Williams : a new world naked by Paul L Mariani( )
The continuity of American poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce( Book )
The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )
Seven modern American poets : an introduction by Leonard Unger( Book )
William Carlos Williams : an American artist by James E. B Breslin( Book )
The art of William Carlos Williams; a discovery and possession of America by James Guimond( Book )
Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson by Alec Marsh( )
The poetic world of William Carlos Williams by Alan Ostrom( Book )
Poets of reality; six twentieth-century writers by J. Hillis Miller( Book )
William Carlos Williams, poet from Jersey by Reed Whittemore( Book )

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Most widely held works by William Carlos Williams

Paterson by William Carlos Williams( Book )

178 editions published between 1848 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 3,759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, William Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us to live" (Denis Donoghue). Paterson is both a place - the New Jersey city near which Williams lived - and a man: the symbolic figure in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of the Passaic River, whose life seemed more and more to resemble my own: the river above the Falls, the catastrophe of the Falls itself, the river below the Falls and the entrance at the end into the great sea." Book Five, published in 1958, when the poet was seventy-five, affirms the triumphant life of the imagination, in spite of age and death. This edition has been completely re-edited by noted Williams scholar Christopher MacGowan of the College of William and Mary and, in addition to presenting the most authoritative text possible, contains invaluable notes identifying Williams' sources and references

The collected later poems of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

93 editions published between 1950 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,558 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents all the poems written by the American physician and author during the forties

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

In the American grain by William Carlos Williams( Book )

104 editions published between 1925 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 2,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Carlos Williams's examination of American history in a series of reflective essays

Collected earlier poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )

72 editions published between 1938 and 1973 in English and held by 2,126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The evolution of Williams' style and the further development of the uniquely American poetic tradition is evidenced in works written before World War II

The collected poems of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

6 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 2,061 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collection of poems of William Carlos Williams from 1939-1962

Six poems by William Carlos Williams( )

7 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,753 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three poems by William Carlos Williams( )

5 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pictures from Brueghel and other poems : including The desert music & Journey to love by William Carlos Williams( Book )

67 editions published between 1949 and 1989 in English and held by 1,622 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of poems written between 1950 and 1962 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, including the complete texts of two earlier volumes, as well as a selection of previously uncollected works

The farmers' daughters; the collected stories of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

31 editions published between 1961 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From the Publisher: New Directions has long published poet William Carlos Williams' entire body of short fiction as The Farmers' Daughters (1961). This new edition of The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams contains all fifty-two stories combining the early collections The Knife of the Times (1932), Life Along the Possaic (1938) with the later collection Make Light of It (1950) and the great long story, "The Farmers' Daughters" (1956). When these stories first appeared, their vitality and immediacy shocked many readers, as did the blunt, idiosyncratic speech of Williams' immigrant and working-class characters. But the passage of time has silenced the detractors, and what shines in the best of these stories is the unflinching honesty and deep humanity of Williams' portraits, burnished by the seeming artlessness which only the greatest masters command

Selected essays by William Carlos Williams( Book )

33 editions published between 1931 and 1969 in English and held by 1,441 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Howl : and other poems by Allen Ginsberg( Book )

42 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and Spanish and held by 1,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ginsberg's 1956 collection of poems created a sensation, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing the literary landscape forever

White mule; a novel by William Carlos Williams( Book )

57 editions published between 1937 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 1,213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

White Mule is the first of a trilogy of novels by William Carlos Williams about the immigrant Stecher family in New York at the turn of the 20th century. The "White Mule" of the title refers to Flossie, the angry, assertive, uncompromising baby, who can kick like White Mule whiskey

The William Carlos Williams reader by William Carlos Williams( Book )

31 editions published between 1962 and 1994 in English and held by 1,179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six American poets : an anthology by Joel Conarroe( Book )

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An anthology of 247 memorable poems by six of America's greatest poets encompasses the works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

The build-up by William Carlos Williams( Book )

38 editions published between 1946 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Joe Stecher and his wife have struggled from their early poverty and strangeness into social acceptance and comparative ease. But somewhere along the line thay have not only lost the magic of their own youth, but the dream of America the golden has become the taste of brass

The complete works of Francois Villon by François Villon( Book )

9 editions published between 1960 and 1964 in English and held by 1,079 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )

73 editions published between 1915 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 979 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of poetry by William Carlos Williams whose early work was influenced by Pound and the Imagists. Subsequently he discarded imagism as possessing "no formal necessity implicit in it" and his own poetically guiding concept "no ideas but in things" dictated his poetry

The doctor stories by William Carlos Williams( Book )

20 editions published between 1962 and 2018 in English and held by 962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of thirteen "doctor stories," six poems on medical matters, and a selection from The Autobiography "can help many others take a knowing look at the medical profession."--Back cover

Many loves and other plays : the collected plays of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

31 editions published between 1961 and 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 870 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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