Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963

Overview

Works:	2,565 works in 6,070 publications in 8 languages and 185,901 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Autobiographies History Literature Short stories Medical fiction Essays
Roles:	Author, Editor, Librettist, Translator, Performer, Lyricist, Other, Author of introduction, Contributor, Dedicatee, Creator, Narrator, Recipient, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., htt, Composer, Signer, v=v, Illustrator, Speaker, 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 Jen Bryant( Book )
William Carlos Williams by Thomas R Whitaker( Book )
William Carlos Williams by John Malcolm Brinnin( Book )
William Carlos Williams : a collection of critical essays by J. Hillis Miller( Book )
Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson by Alec Marsh( )

Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s by Milton A Cohen( )
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( )
The autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams( Book )
William Carlos Williams : a new world naked by Paul L Mariani( Book )
The transparent lyric : reading and meaning in the poetry of Stevens and Williams by David Walker( )
William Carlos Williams and the diagnostics of culture by Brian A Bremen( )
The continuity of American poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce( Book )
William Carlos Williams : an American artist by James E. B Breslin( Book )
The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )
The art of William Carlos Williams; a discovery and possession of America by James Guimond( Book )
Seven modern American poets : an introduction by Leonard Unger( Book )
The poetic world of William Carlos Williams by Alan Ostrom( 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 )

183 editions published between 1848 and 2019 in 7 languages and held by 3,735 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 )

103 editions published between 1944 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,566 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 2,350 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 )

88 editions published between 1925 and 2021 in 7 languages and held by 2,257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus's discovery of the Indies and moving on through Sir Walter Raleigh, Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln, Williams found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning and configurations of character. He brought a poetic imagination to the task of reconstructing a live tradition for Americans, and what results is one of the finest works of prose to have been penned by any writer of the twentieth century."--

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

11 editions published between 1986 and 1991 in English and held by 1,874 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 1,822 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three Poems by William Carlos Williams( )

5 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,785 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected earlier poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )

29 editions published between 1938 and 1973 in English and held by 1,726 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

Howl : and other poems by Allen Ginsberg( Book )

39 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and Spanish and held by 1,336 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 poems by William Carlos Williams( Book )

87 editions published between 1915 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,309 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

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

64 editions published between 1937 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 1,231 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 )

17 editions published between 1962 and 1994 in English and held by 1,123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 1,060 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 doctor stories by William Carlos Williams( Book )

25 editions published between 1962 and 2018 in English and held by 1,022 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

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

10 editions published between 1960 and 1964 in English and held by 1,018 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poetry of François Villon is always intensely personal, a distillation of the heart and soul of perhaps the most notorious figure in all literature. Libertine, brawler, thief, scholar, rake, murderer, Villon was a citizen of Paris and a lover of its teeming streets, the sounds and sights of which fill his works: "The Legacy", "The Testament", "Miscellaneous Poems", and "Poems in Slang". The works of the man who has been called the key figure in modern poetry are presented here in a fresh, free-verse English translation as well as in the original French. The design of the book is such that the French text and the English translation face each other on opposite pages, line for line, verse for verse. Along with the brilliant introduction by William Carlos Williams, the volume contains a short biography of Villon, a foreword concerning the text, translation, and notes, as well as a bibliography and an index of first lines, both in French and in English. -- From publisher's description

The build-up by William Carlos Williams( Book )

41 editions published between 1946 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,007 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

German printer and his Norwegian wife in New Jersey from 1900 to the European War

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

18 editions published between 1961 and 1968 in English and held by 979 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected essays by William Carlos Williams( Book )

14 editions published between 1954 and 1969 in English and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

22 editions published between 1961 and 1965 in 3 languages and held by 820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A voyage to Pagany by William Carlos Williams( Book )

31 editions published between 1928 and 1988 in English and held by 816 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An autobiographical travelogue in the form of a novel

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