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Availability:Out of StockContributor:William Carlos Williams, Rick Moody (Introduction by)Series:New Directions PaperbookPublish date:10/01/09Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811218498ISBN-10:081121849XUPC:9780811218498Book Category:Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Size:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCEYKZX6PE
Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is "a fundamental book, essential if one proposes to come to terms with American literature" (Times Literary Supplement). William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus's discovery of the Indies and moving on through Sir Walter Raleigh, Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln, Williams found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning and configurations of character. He brought a poetic imagination to the task of reconstructing a live tradition for Americans, and what results is one of the finest works of prose to have been penned by any writer of the twentieth century.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811218498ISBN-10:081121849XUPC:9780811218498Book Category:Literary Collections, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Size:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCEYKZX6PE
Williams, William Carlos: - Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the local experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.Moody, Rick: - Rick Moody is the award-winning author of Black Veil, Demonology, The Diviners, Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and Right Livelihoods.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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