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The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
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The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson
as an ethical autobiography in progress. William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of
American poetry in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
His simple language and focus on the familiar objects and voices of
everyday life pulled poetry out of the past and restored its
ability to express contemporary experience. Williams believed
passionately in poetry's usefulness, abhorring its perception as an
esoteric pursuit and insisting on the impact it could have on the
life of a reader if only made relevant to his or her experience.
Examining the sources of this belief, Ian Copestake breaks new
ground by tracing the enduring impact of Williams's youthful
experience of Unitarianism on his poetry and arguing that Williams
is a poet in an Emersonian tradition. Two chapters focus on
Williams's long poem Paterson, arguing that its long gestation --
from 1927 to 1951 -- reflects its role asan ethical autobiography
in progress. Copestake investigates sources that point to the
ethical heart of Williams's poetry and to his lifelong belief that
"It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die
miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there." Ian D.
Copestake is a Lecturer at the University of Bamberg, Germany and
editor of the William Carlos Williams Review.
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