The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912

by Andrew J. Krivac

Overview

This book recovers the earliest epistolary activity of one of America's most innovative and influential modernist poets. From 1902 to 1912, William Carlos Williams wrote more than 300 letters to his younger brother Edgar, an accomplished architect with whom Williams shared the desire to become 'a great artist'. This collection of 200 letters sheds new light on the aesthetic thoughts and practices with which Williams was engaged for a full decade before his unique voice emerged in the forerunner to 'Paterson', 'The Wanderer' (1914). Providing a comprehensive introduction, exhaustive annotation, images of poetry and artwork, and hundreds of letters never before seen by scholars, this critical edition provides substantially new material on Williams and will be an important addition to the study of early American modernism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611473674
Publisher:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Pages:	379
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr. Andrew J. Krivak is an independent scholar and writer in the field of twentieth-century Anglo and American poetry and literature.

Editorial Reviews

What emerges most strongly through the two hundred letters from Williams and the surviving twenty-five letters from Edgar is an evolving debate over the nature and the role of art and the job of the artist and/or the man.

Resources for American Literary Study

What emerges most strongly through the two hundred letters from Williams and the surviving twenty-five letters from Edgar is an evolving debate over the nature and the role of art and the job of the artist and/or the man.

Resources For American Literary Study

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