Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matter of the Moment. These letters destroy two other romantic legends that have grown up about Keats. One is that he died from the pain caused by the vicious reviews the British literary magazines gave his early poem Endymion. The Keats revealed here was much too hardy to let a few brutal words break him. He wrote: "This is a mere matter of the moment-I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death...
Since 1946, Poet and Pediatrician William Carlos Williams has been publishing parts of a long poem, Paterson. In between patients and the writing of an autobiography (to appear next fall), gingery Bill Williams, 67, has been letting his eye roam over the industrial area of northern New Jersey and has been thinking about the patterns and meanings of U.S. life. The result is Paterson, a scrapbook of daily life as Americans live...
...first three books, the poem had its narrator-hero, "Dr. Paterson," sketching vignettes of the city, mourning over the lost souls who wander through it with "minds beaten thin by waste," and ransacking the town library to find out why men have become walled off from each other. The answer is supposed to come in Book...
Poet William Carlos Williams, a new honorary member, and Ralph Barton Perry '96, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, gave the addresses at the literary exercises. Williams read an original poem, called "The Desert Music," and Barton presented an oration entitled, "The Troubled Citizen...
Williams, a New Jersey physician and part-time author, has published both prose and poetry, including "Spring and All," "An Early Martyr," and "In the Money." In his Phi Beta Kappa poem he described a trip taken in Mexico, and used realistic imagery in an effort to show that a poet does not simply reproduced what he sees, but rather sets down the music inspired by the sight. Later in his speech he urged that American authors build up an American language of their own and cease copying the Englishman's language...