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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tapscott, Stephen, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231877749

0231877749

OCLC:

1100450461