American Beauty : : William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman / / Stephen Tapscott.
A discussion of the work of William Carlos Williams, an early American poet and physician, as it relates to that of Walt Whitman. Traces the influence of Whitman's work on Williams, and reflects on the historical context of the time he was writing in.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1984] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 1984 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. A Whitman for Moderns
- 1. The Problem of an American Self
- 2. The Road to Whitman
- 3. Two Whitmans
- Part II. Reading Williams
- 4. A Relative Formalism: Relativity, Metrics, and the Separate Self
- 5. Williams and the American Beauty: The Objective Use of Words
- Part III. The Two Whitmans Joined
- 6. Whitman in Paterson
- 7. Doctor Paterson
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index