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American Beauty : William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman / Stephen Tapscott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231902380
  • 9780231877749
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Whitman for Moderns -- 1. The Problem of an American Self -- 2. The Road to Whitman -- 3. Two Whitmans -- Part II. Reading Williams -- 4. A Relative Formalism: Relativity, Metrics, and the Separate Self -- 5. Williams and the American Beauty: The Objective Use of Words -- Part III. The Two Whitmans Joined -- 6. Whitman in Paterson -- 7. Doctor Paterson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A discussion of the work of William Carlos Williams, an early American poet and physician, as it relates to that of Walt Whitman. Traces the influence of Whitman's work on Williams, and reflects on the historical context of the time he was writing in.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Whitman for Moderns -- 1. The Problem of an American Self -- 2. The Road to Whitman -- 3. Two Whitmans -- Part II. Reading Williams -- 4. A Relative Formalism: Relativity, Metrics, and the Separate Self -- 5. Williams and the American Beauty: The Objective Use of Words -- Part III. The Two Whitmans Joined -- 6. Whitman in Paterson -- 7. Doctor Paterson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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A discussion of the work of William Carlos Williams, an early American poet and physician, as it relates to that of Walt Whitman. Traces the influence of Whitman's work on Williams, and reflects on the historical context of the time he was writing in.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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