Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963

Overview

Works:	2,418 works in 5,623 publications in 7 languages and 179,183 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Fiction Autobiographies Literature Biographies Short stories Art Domestic fiction
Roles:	Author, Librettist, Editor, Translator, Performer, Lyricist, Other, Author of introduction, Dedicatee, Recipient, Contributor, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Narrator, v=v, Illustrator, Signer, Honoree, Speaker
Classifications:	PS3545.I544, 811.52

Publication Timeline

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 )
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( )
Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson by Alec Marsh( )
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( )
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )
William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture by Brian A Bremen( )
William Carlos Williams : a new world naked by Paul L Mariani( Book )
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 )
The art of William Carlos Williams; a discovery and possession of America by James Guimond( Book )
William Carlos Williams : an American artist by James E. B Breslin( Book )
The poetic world of William Carlos Williams by Alan Ostrom( Book )
The transparent lyric : reading and meaning in the poetry of Stevens and Williams by David Walker( )
Poets of reality; six twentieth-century writers by J. Hillis Miller( Book )

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Most widely held works by William Carlos Williams

Paterson by William Carlos Williams( Book )

174 editions published between 1848 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 3,662 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 )

101 editions published between 1944 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,570 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 2,341 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 )

91 editions published between 1925 and 2016 in 6 languages and held by 2,247 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 )

67 editions published between 1938 and 1973 in English and held by 2,100 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 )

9 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 1,825 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 1,791 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three poems by William Carlos Williams( )

5 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Howl : and other poems by Allen Ginsberg( Book )

40 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and Spanish and held by 1,348 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

Selected essays by William Carlos Williams( Book )

14 editions published between 1954 and 1969 in English and held by 1,286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

59 editions published between 1937 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 1,211 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 )

18 editions published between 1962 and 1990 in English and held by 1,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,094 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 farmers' daughters; the collected stories of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

29 editions published between 1961 and 1981 in English and held by 1,075 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The build-up by William Carlos Williams( Book )

36 editions published between 1946 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,073 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 )

8 editions published between 1960 and 1964 in English and held by 1,060 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The doctor stories by William Carlos Williams( Book )

20 editions published between 1962 and 2018 in English and held by 970 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 )

30 editions published between 1961 and 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A voyage to Pagany by William Carlos Williams( Book )

30 editions published between 1928 and 1988 in English and Undetermined and held by 814 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A recognizable image : William Carlos Williams on art and artists by William Carlos Williams( Book )

9 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 805 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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