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In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams

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Name: William Carlos Williams
Birth Date: September 17, 1883
Death Date: March 4, 1963
Place of Birth: Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
Place of Death: Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, writer, pediatrician

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Biography of William Carlos Williams
1209 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. Throughout his life Williams espoused the creation of a...
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Biography of William Carlos Williams
20079 words, approx. 66.9 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 Kenneth Burke has told captures something of that special q...
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Biography of William Carlos Williams
18992 words, approx. 63.3 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 Kenneth Burke has told captures something of that special q...
 


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The Washington Post
In the American Grain
09/01/1996: 1,277 words, approx. 4 pages
U.S.A. The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money By John Dos Passos Library of America. 1,288 pp. $40 THAT JOHN Dos Passos's massive U.S.A. trilogy belongs in the Library of America -- that it is a classic of American literature -- is,...
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The American Enterprise
In the American Grain. (book reviews)
01/01/1997: 485 words, approx. 2 pages
By William Carlos Williams; 1925 In the years after World War I, American society underwent dramatic changes. According to the 1920 census, for the first time more Americans lived in cities and towns than in rural settings. New York City's population swelled to...
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The New York Observer
Animating a Dull Life: Scary Workaholic Genius
11/5/2006: 1,275 words, approx. 4 pages
Walt Disney was a wretched businessman. This seems like a comically counterintuitive statement, with the Disney machine standing foursquare throughout the world as an impregnable marketing monolith, but this commercial hegemony is a comparatively recent phenomenon. It was only in the last 10 years or...
 


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