A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxvii,[1], 354, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Introductory Note. List of Abbreviations. Books by. Books with contributions by., Contributions to periodicals, Miscellanea: Broadsides and Leaflets, Musical Settings, Recordings and radio Scripts, Brief Statements in Advertisements, Medical article, A checklist of Translations. Index. DJ is price clipped and in plastic sleeve with slight wear. Emily Mitchell Wallace Harvey was a scholar and an expert on the poets Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. Dr. Wallace, as she was known professionally was an expert on Williams and Pound, who were associated with the modernist poetry movement of the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe and North America. Dr. Wallace came to her profession at a time when traditional forms of literature and art were breaking apart and resurfacing as nontraditional verse and abstract art. She gave the new forms credence in her lectures and writings. She completed a master's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1965, both from Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Wallace started out teaching history and English literature at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and then taught literature in Bryn Mawr. She became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting assistant professor of English at Swarthmore College. She returned to the Curtis Institute of Music as the chair of the English department from 1976 to 1983, taking a brief interlude to serve as a leader in the interdisciplinary seminar at Yale University. She was a research scholar in poetry and the visual arts at the Cooper Union. William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. The hospital, which is now known as St. Mary's General Hospital, paid tribute to Williams with a memorial plaque that states "We walk the wards that Williams walked". He published his first book, Poems, in 1909. Around 1912, his second book of poems, The Tempers, was published by a London press through the help of his friend Ezra Pound, whom he had met while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Although his primary occupation was as a family doctor, Williams had a successful literary career as a poet. His work has a great affinity with painting, in which he had a lifelong interest. In addition to poetry (his main literary focus), he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and translations. He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Williams published Spring and All, one of his seminal books of poetry, which contained the classic poems "By the road to the contagious hospital", "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To Elsie". However, in 1922, the year it was published, the appearance of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land became a literary sensation and overshadowed Williams's very different brand of poetic Modernism. One of Williams's more dynamic relationships as a mentor was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg's letters in Paterson, stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth section of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg's first book, Howl and Other Poems in 1956.