William Carlos Williams (Critical Heritage) - Tapa dura

(William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is a major figure in the pantheon of American poets. His first book, Poems, appeared in 1909, and was followed by three further works, until the publication in 1923 of Spring and A.II marked his reception as a major poet. He continued writing steadily throughout his life, including the large five-part Paterson, and there have been five major collections of his work. He was also a successful writer of drama, prose (In the American Grain) and fiction (a novel trilogy, White Mule, In the Money and The Build-Up, and a collection of short stories, The Farmers' Daughters).
The material gathered together in this volume traces the critical response to Williams's writing from 1909 to 1964. The extracts include comments from, among others, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens, Basil Bunting, Ford Madox Ford, Yvor Winters, Robert Lowell, Richard Ellmann, David Daiches, John Berryman, Donald Davie, Thorn Gunn and Philip Toynbee)