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Selected Poems
Charles Tomlinson
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Description for Selected Poems
Paperback. A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the landscape and people of his native New Jersey, his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor. Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience, the poems were written according to the guiding concept: 'no ideas but in things' and those 'things', a red wheelbarrow, a group of trees, a river, convey the local and the particular ... Read more
In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the landscape and people of his native New Jersey, his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor. Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience, the poems were written according to the guiding concept: 'no ideas but in things' and those 'things', a red wheelbarrow, a group of trees, a river, convey the local and the particular ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141184340
SKU
V9780141184340
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About Charles Tomlinson
William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. He lived there most of his life, practising medicine as a paediatrician. While studying at the Pennsylvania Medical School he became a friend of Ezra Pound and H. Doolittle, and was deeply influenced by Imagism. The limitations of Imagism, however, soon led him to launch his own campaign to ... Read more
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