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Letters William Williams Edgarcb
Andrew J. Krivac
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Description for Letters William Williams Edgarcb
Hardback. Num Pages: 379 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 708.
This book recovers the earliest epistolary activity of one of America's most innovative and influential modernist poets. From 1902 to 1912, William Carlos Williams wrote more than 300 letters to his younger brother Edgar, an accomplished architect with whom Williams shared the desire to become 'a great artist'. This collection of 200 letters sheds new light on the aesthetic thoughts and practices with which Williams was engaged for a full decade before his unique voice emerged in the forerunner to 'Paterson', 'The Wanderer' (1914). Providing a comprehensive introduction, exhaustive annotation, images of poetry and artwork, and hundreds of letters never ... Read more
This book recovers the earliest epistolary activity of one of America's most innovative and influential modernist poets. From 1902 to 1912, William Carlos Williams wrote more than 300 letters to his younger brother Edgar, an accomplished architect with whom Williams shared the desire to become 'a great artist'. This collection of 200 letters sheds new light on the aesthetic thoughts and practices with which Williams was engaged for a full decade before his unique voice emerged in the forerunner to 'Paterson', 'The Wanderer' (1914). Providing a comprehensive introduction, exhaustive annotation, images of poetry and artwork, and hundreds of letters never ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
Number of Pages
379
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473674
SKU
V9781611473674
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About Andrew J. Krivac
Dr. Andrew J. Krivak is an independent scholar and writer in the field of twentieth-century Anglo and American poetry and literature.
Reviews for Letters William Williams Edgarcb
What emerges most strongly through the two hundred letters from Williams and the surviving twenty-five letters from Edgar is an evolving debate over the nature and the role of art and the job of the artist and/or the man.
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