Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963

Overview

Works:	2,102 works in 5,075 publications in 6 languages and 175,212 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Biography Fiction History Records and correspondence Periodicals
Roles:	Author, Librettist, Editor, Translator, Performer, Lyricist, Other, Author of introduction, Dedicatee, Recipient, Contributor, Signer, Speaker, Narrator, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Honoree
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 )
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )
William Carlos Williams : a collection of critical essays by J. Hillis Miller( Book )
The continuity of American poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce( Book )

William Carlos Williams : a new world naked by Paul L Mariani( Book )
Seven modern American poets : an introduction by Leonard Unger( Book )
The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )
William Carlos Williams by John Malcolm Brinnin( 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 )
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 )
Selected poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )
A usable past : essays on modern & contemporary poetry by Paul L Mariani( Book )
Literary admirers of Alfred Stieglitz by F. Richard Thomas( Book )
William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture by Brian A Bremen( Book )
Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson by Alec Marsh( Book )
Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s by Milton A Cohen( Book )

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Most widely held works by William Carlos Williams

Paterson by William Carlos Williams( Book )

146 editions published between 1848 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 2,862 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 )

74 editions published between 1950 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,474 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 2,352 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 )

102 editions published between 1925 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 2,290 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 Undetermined and held by 2,115 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 )

24 editions published between 1986 and 1991 in English and held by 2,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collection of poems of William Carlos Williams from 1939-1962

Selected poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )

84 editions published between 1915 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,653 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents approximately 140 poems by twentieth-century American poet William Carlos Williams and includes an introduction by poet Robert Pinsky and an index of titles and first lines

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

26 editions published between 1961 and 1996 in English and held by 1,508 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

Howl : and other poems by Allen Ginsberg( Book )

32 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and held by 1,364 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 )

50 editions published between 1937 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 1,201 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 )

30 editions published between 1962 and 1990 in English and held by 1,183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,128 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 complete works of Francois Villon by François Villon( Book )

8 editions published between 1960 and 1964 in English and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The build-up by William Carlos Williams( Book )

37 editions published between 1946 and 1989 in English 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 doctor stories by William Carlos Williams( Book )

17 editions published between 1962 and 1987 in English and held by 942 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 )

32 editions published between 1961 and 1966 in English and held by 874 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

47 editions published between 1948 and 1990 in English and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). At the same time as maintaining a popular medical practice, he became a prolific poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. Experimenting with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh and singularly American poetics, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009

Pictures from Brueghel, and other poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )

10 editions published between 1955 and 1981 in English and Spanish and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected essays of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )

7 editions published between 1954 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Six poems by William Carlos Williams( )

6 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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