In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams

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What is the American identity? What do the words and actions of those who first came to America say about how the nation's identity has been shaped? What is America's history – who writes it and who controls how we see our nation’s heroes and villains alike? William Carlos Williams examines these questions in this collection of essays, "In the American Grain", about the first explorers and settlers who put their stamp of...

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William Carlos Williams Biographies (7)

William Carlos Williams

1,661 words, approx. 6 pages

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), American writer and pediatrician, developed in his poetry a lucid, vital style that reproduced the characteristic rhythms of American speech.William Carlos William... Read more

William Carlos Williams

6,327 words, approx. 22 pages

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a n... Read more

William Carlos Williams

1,195 words, approx. 4 pages

William Carlos Williams has been considered one of America's foremost modernists, perhaps the quintessential avant-gardist, one who has had a profound influence on subsequent generations of writers. T... Read more

William Carlos Williams

3,705 words, approx. 13 pages

Writing his first article on poetry in A.R. Orage's magazine the New Age, F. S. Flint seized upon a recently published book of Japanese poetry in translation, Sword and Blossom, and wrote feelingly of... Read more

William Carlos Williams

19,015 words, approx. 64 pages

One should perhaps always resist the temptation to sum up a writer's life and work, his "essence," by way of a single revealing anecdote. In the case of William Carlos Williams, however, a story Kenn... Read more

William Carlos Williams

2,608 words, approx. 9 pages

Best known as a poet, William Carlos Williams was an accomplished writer in many genres. He produced twenty-three volumes of poetry, five collections of short fiction, six novels, seven books of nonfi... Read more

William Carlos Williams

20,098 words, approx. 67 pages

Biography EssayOne should perhaps always resist the temptation to sum up a writer's life and work, his "essence," by way of a single revealing anecdote. In the case of William Carlos Williams, however... Read more

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