In the American grain / essays by William Carlos Williams ; Introduction by Horace Gregory.
By: Williams, William Carlos.
Contributor(s): Gregory, Horace
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BookSeries: Peregrine books.Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971Description: 235 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0140550925.Subject(s): United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 917.3 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published, New York: Boni, 1925
Red Eric.--The discovery of the Indies; Christopher Columbus.--The destruction of Tenochtitlan; Cortez and Montezuma.--The fountain of eternal youth; Juan Ponce de Leon.--De Soto and the New World.--Sir Walter Raleigh.-- Voyage of the "Mayflower".--The founding of Quebec; Samuel de Champlain.--The May-pole at Merrymount; Thomas Morton --Cotton Mather's Wonders of the invisible world: I. Enchantments encountered. II. The trial of Bridget Bishop at Salem, The trial of Susanna Martin. III. Curiosities.-- Père Sebastian Rasles.--The discovery of Kentucky; Daniel Boone.--George Washington.--Poor Richard; Benjamin Franklin.--Battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis; John Paul Jones.--Jacataqua.--The virtue of history; Aaron Burr.--Advent of the slaves.--Edgar Allan
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Poet, artist, and practicing physician of Rutherford, New Jersey, William Carlos Williams wrote poetry that was experimental in form, ranging from imagism to objectivism, with great originality of idiom and human vitality. Credited with changing and directing American poetry toward a new metric and language, he also wrote a large number of short stories and novels. Paterson (1946--58), about the New Jersey city of that name, was his epic and places him with Ezra Pound of the Cantos as one of the great shapers of the long poem in this century.National recognition did not come early, but eventually Williams received many honors, including a vice-presidency of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1952); the Bollingen Prize (1953); the $5,000 fellowship of the Academy of American Poets; the Loines Award for poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1948); and the Brandeis Award (1957). Book II of Paterson received the first National Book Award for poetry in 1949. Williams was named consultant in poetry in English to the Library of Congress for 1952--53.
Williams's continuously inventive style anchored not only objectivism, the school to which he most properly belongs, but also a long line of subsequent poets as various as Robert Lowell, Frank O'Hara, and Allen Ginsberg. With Stevens, he forms one of the most important sources of a specifically American tradition of modernism.
In addition to his earlier honors, Williams received two important awards posthumously, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1963) and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1963).
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