WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS William Carlos Williams, the Collected Poems, Ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher Macgowan

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems, ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan (2 vols, Manchester, 1987-8; London, Paladin Books, 2 vols., 1991). William Carlos Williams, Paterson, ed. Christopher MacGowan (rev. ed., Manchester, 1992). William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, ed. with Intro. by Charles Tomlinson (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1976); see also Charles Tomlinson (ed.), William Carlos Williams; A Critical Anthology (Harmondsworth, 1972).

William Carlos Williams, The Normal and Adventitious Danger Periods for Pulmonary Disease in Children (originally in Archive of Pediatrics, 1913; reprinted, New York, 1988); and see Crawford (T. Hugh), Modernism, Medicine, & William Carlos Williams (Norman, Okla., c.1993).

William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell (Boston, 1920). William Carlos Williams, Spring and All ([Paris] [Dijon?], 1923). William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (New York, 1925).

William Carlos Williams, White Mule (Norfolk, Conn., 1937; London, 1965) William Carlos Williams, In the Money (Norfolk, Conn., c.1940; London, 1966).

William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin, Selected Letters, ed. Hugh Witemeyer (New York & London, c.1989). William Carlos Williams, Pound/Williams; Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, ed. Hugh Witemeyer (New York, 1996). William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain: Essays, ed. Horace Gregory (London, 1966, and reprinted). William Carlos Williams, Selected Essays (New York, 1954), esp. 'The American Background' (1934), pp. 134-61; also 'The Work of Gertrude Stein' (1931), pp. 113-20. William Carlos Williams, 'America, Whitman, and the Art of Poetry', The Poetry Journal, VIII.1 (November, 1917), 27-36, reprinted in the William Carlos Williams Review, 13.1 (1987), 1-4; see also Aji (Hélène), 'Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams's Romantic Dilemmas: From Obliteration to 2 Remanence', Cercles, 12 (2005), 50-63.

William Carlos Williams, 'An Essay on Leaves of Grass' (1955), in Leaves of Grass One Hundred Years After, ed. Milton Hindus (Stanford, Cal., 1955), pp. 22-31, reprinted in Roy Harvey Pearce (ed.), Whitman; A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962), pp. 146-54. William Carlos Williams, Imaginations: Five Experimental Prose Pieces (London, 1970). William Carlos Williams, The Embodiment of Knowledge, ed. Ron Loewinsohn (New York, 1974). William Carlos Williams, A Recognizable Image; William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists, ed. Bram Dijkstra (New York, 1978). William Carlos Williams, interview with Stanley Koehler, in Writers at Work: The 'Paris Review' Interviews (3rd series; New York, 1967), pp. 3-30. Wagner (Linda W.) (ed.), Interviews with William Carlos Williams: 'Speaking Straight Ahead' (New York, 1976).

Mariani (Paul), William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (New York, c.1981). Frail (David), The Early Politics and Poetics of William Carlos Williams (Ann Arbor, Mich., c.1987). Mencken (H.L.), The American Language, intro. R.I. McDonald, Jr. (4th rev. ed., reprinted, London, 1963) [The review by Williams of the 4th ed. is reprinted in Selected Essays].

Ahearn (Barry), William Carlos Williams and Alterity; The Early Poetry (Cambridge, 1994). Altieri (Charles), Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry; The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Cambridge, 1989). Bennett (David), 'Defining the "American" Difference: Cultural Nationalism and the Modernist Poetics of William Carlos Williams', Southern Review, 20 (1987), 271-80. Bernstein (Michael), The Tale of the Tribe; Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic (Princeton, 1980). Blackmur (R.P.), Language as Gesture; Essays in Poetry (London, c.1954). Breslin (James E.B.), 'William Carlos Williams and Charles Demuth: Cross- Fertilization in the Arts', Journ. Modern. Lit., 6 (1977), 248-263. Brown (Milton W.), The Story of the Armoury Show (New York, Abbeville Press, new ed., 1988). Bufithis (Philip), 'William Carlos Williams Writing against The Waste Land', in 3 Sagetrieb, 8 (1989). Conrad (Bryce), Refiguring America: A Study of William Carlos Williams' 'In The American Grain' (Urbana, Ill., c.1990). Cowley (Malcolm), Exile's Return; A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's (London, 1934). Creeley (Robert), The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (Berkeley, Cal., c.1989), passim. Cushman (Stephen), William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure (New Haven & London, c.1985). Davidson (Abraham A.), Early American Modernist Painting, 1910-1935 (New York, 1981, reprinted, 1994). Diggory (Terence), William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting (Princeton, c.1991). Dijkstra (Bram), The Hieroglyphics of a New Speech; Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams (Princeton, 1969). Dijkstra (Bram), Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams (Princeton, 1978). Dijkstra (Bram) (ed.), A Recognizable Image; William Caarlos Williams on Art and Artists (New York, 1978). Duffy (Bernard), A Poetry of Presence: The Writing of William Carlos Williams (Madison, Wis., 1986). Fredman (Stephen), Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (Cambridge, 1983; 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1990) [on Williams, Kora in Hell; Creeley, Presences; Ashbery, Three Poems]. Frye (Richard R.), 'Seeing the Signs: Objectivist Premonitions in Williams' Spring and All', in Sagetrieb, 8. Gelpi (Albert), A Coherent Splendor; The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910- 1950 (Cambridge, 1987), Chap. 6. Gray (Richard), American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (London, 1990). Gunn (Thom), 'A New World: The Poetry of William Carlos Williams' (1965), in his The Occasions of Poetry; Essays in Criticism and Autobiography, ed. Clive Wilmer (London, 1982), pp. 21-35. Hallberg (Robert von), 'Olson's Relationship to Pound and Williams', Contemp. Lit., 15 (1974), 15-48. Hallberg (Robert von), 'The Politics of Description; W.C. Williams in the 1930s', ELH 45 (1978), 131-151. Halter (Peter), The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams (Cambridge, 1994). Hartley (Marsden), Adventures in the Arts (New York, 1921). Hatlen (Burton), 'Openness and Closure in Williams's Spring and All', in William Carlos Williams Review, 20 (1994), 15-29. 4 Heller (Michael), Conviction's Net of Branches; Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry (Carbondale, Ill., c.1985). Hollander (John), Vision and Resonance; Two Senses of Poetic Form (2nd ed., New Haven, c.1985). Kadlec (David), Mosaic Modernism; Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture (Baltimore, Md, c.2000). Litz (A. Walton), 'Williams and Stevens: the Quest for a Native American Modernism', in R.P. Draper (ed.), The Literature of Region and Nation (Basingstoke, 1989).

Lowell (Robert), 'William Carlos Williams' (1947, 1948, 1962), in his Collected Prose, ed. Robert Giroux (London, 1987), pp. 29-43. Lowney (John), The American Avant-Garde Tradition; William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory (Cranbury, N.J., c.1997). Mariani (Paul), A Usable Past: Essays on Modern & Contemporary Poetry (Amherst, Mass., 1984). Marling (W.), William Carlos Williams and the Painters, 1909-23 (Athens, Ohio, c.1982). MacGowan (Christopher), William Carlos Williams's Early Poetry; The Visual Arts Background (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1984). Markos (Donald W.), Ideas and Things; The Poems of William Carlos Williams (Rutherford, N.J., c.1994). Miller (J. Hillis) (ed.), William Carlos Williams; A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1966). Miller (J. Hillis), 'Williams's Spring and All and the Progress of Poetry', Daedalus, 99 (1970), 405-34, reprinted in his Tropes, Parables, Per- formatives; Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature (New York, 1990), pp. 79-105. Moore (Patrick), 'Cubist Prosody: William Carlos Williams and the Conventions of Verse Lineation', PQ, 65 (1986), 515-36; see also the entry by Williams, 'Free Verse', in the Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton, N.J., 1965), pp. 288-90. Movius (Geoffrey H.), The Early Prose of William Carlos Williams, 1917-1925 (New York, 1987). Nelson (Cary), Repression and Recovery; Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945 (Madison, Wis., 1989. Oliphant (Dave) and Zigal (Thomas) (eds), WCW & Others; Essays on William Carlos Williams and his Association with Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, Emanuel Romano, Wallace Stevens and Louis Zukofsky (Austin, Tex., c.1985). Perloff (Marjorie), '"Lines Converging and Crossing": The "French" Decade of William Carlos Williams', in her The Poetics of Indeterminacy (Princeton, 1981), Chap. Four. 5 Perloff (Marjorie), The Dance of the Intellect; Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Cambridge, 1985). Pound (Ezra), 'Dr Williams' Position' (1928), in his Polite Essays (London, 1937), 67-81. Qian (Zhaoming), Orientalism and Modernism; The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams (Durham, N.C., 1995). Quartermain (Peter), Disjunctive Poetics; From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge, 1992). Rapp (Carl), William Carlos Williams and Romantic Idealism (Hanover, NH, 1984).

Rehder (Robert), Stevens, Williams, Crane, and the Motive for Metaphor (Basingstoke, 2004).

Riddel (Joseph N.), The Inverted Bell; Modernism and the Counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams (Baton Rouge, La, 1974). Sayre (Henry M.), The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams (Urbana, Ill., 1983). Sayre (Henry M.), 'Avant-Garde Dispositions: Placing Spring and All in Context', William Carlos Williams Review, 10 (1984), 13-24. Schmidt (Peter), 'Some Versions of Modernist Pastoral; Williams and the Precisionists', Contemp. Lit., 21 (1980), 383-406. Steinman (Lisa M.), Made in America; Science, Technology and American Modernist Poets (New Haven, 1987). Tapscott (S.), American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman (New York, 1984). Tashjian (Dickran), Skyscraper Primitives; Dada and the American Avant- Garde, 1910-1925 (Middletown, Conn., 1975). Tashjian (Dickran), William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, 1920- 1940 (Berkeley, Cal., 1978) [exhibition catalogue]. Thomas (F. Richard), Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz (Carbondale, Ill. c.1983). Walker (David), The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams (Princeton, c.1984). Weaver (Mike), William Carlos Williams; The American Background (Cambridge, 1971).

J.H. Prynne, July 2006

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