The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619021536 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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For more than forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.. He was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays
"Five Stars" according to Frank Myers. It was OK. S. Schuler said Locally-Sourced Literary Analysis. Although a lover of modern poetry, I never felt that I understood Williams's poetry. But as a long-time fan of Wendell Berry, I was delighted to run across this volume in a local bookstore. I felt sure that, if anybody could help me understand Williams, Berry could. And he did. Berry has done his homework. . Gerard H Dombrowski said The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford. This is an excellent overview of one American icon by another. Wendell Berry has many brilliant insights into Dr. Williams opus.
Generously quoting many of Williams’ best lines, tenderly confessing when he doesn’t understand Williams (e.g., Williams’ elusive “variable foot”), and referring to his own life and work to clarify what he thinks about Williams, Berry produces a work of aesthetics more than evaluation, of love more than critique. He is indisputably Berry’s great model, though Berry is a rural, Williams an urban, poet, as Berry verifies in his thorough discussion of Williams’ poetic practice. --Ray Olson . Williams formulated his own poetics in his poetry, and through his conceptions of the imagination and its work (which Berry saliently compares to Coleridge’s much more famous ones), he honored the great modernist injunction to &
Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a "provincial" part of the country without an established literary culture. In Williams' commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey, Berry found an inspiration that inevitably influenced the direction of his own writing.Both men would go on to establish themselves as respected American poets, and here Berry sets forth his understanding of that evolution for Williams, who in the course of his local membership and service, became a poet indispensable to us all.. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams