Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams

Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary magazines, wrote prefaces and introductions, and lectured at many universities. This selection represents his finest work in criticism. Much of it concerns poetry and poets––T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Karl Shapiro, E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Robert Lowell and many others. Williams also spoke out on painters and paintings as well as music and literature. There are essays on James Joyce, Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca, the basis of faith in art, the American Revolution, H. L. Mencken's The American Language, Ford Madox Ford, American primitive painters, Antheil's music, and the work of Gertrude Stein.

• Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
• Imaginations: Kora in Hell / Spring and All / The Descent of Winter / The Great American Novel / A Novelette & Other Prose (ND Paperbook; Ndp)
• Paterson (Revised Edition) (New Directions Paperback 806 806)
• The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook)
• In the American Grain (Second Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)
• I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (New Directions Paperbook)
• The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
• The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams
• The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 2: 1939-1962
• The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939