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William Carlos Williams (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
Best known as a poet, William Carlos Williams nevertheless wrote in a variety of literary forms (some of them defying categorization) including poetry, novels, short stories, prose poetry, essays, autobiography, and plays. Paterson, his extended poem published in four separate volumes (1946-1951), with a fifth volume serving as a commentary (1958), is his most famous and enduring work.
Achievements
William Carlos Williams received numerous awards, including the Dial Award in 1926, the National Book Award in 1950, the Bollingen Award...
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At the Ball Game (Poetry) -
Autobiography of William Carlos Williams, The (Nonfiction) -
Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, The (Literary Annual Reviews) -
Dance, The (Poetry) -
Descent, The (Poetry) -
Desert Music, The (Poetry) -
In the American Grain (Masterplots Classics) -
In the American Grain (Magill Book Reviews) -
Nantucket (Poetry) -
Paterson (Masterplots Classics) -
Paterson (Character Profiles) -
Paterson (Literary Places) -
Paterson (Magill Book Reviews) -
Paterson (Magill Book Reviews) -
Pictures from Brueghel (Magill Book Reviews) -
Poetry of Williams (William Carlos), The (Masterplots Classics) -
Pound/Williams (Literary Annual Reviews) -
Pound/Williams (Magill Book Reviews) -
Queen-Ann’s-Lace (Poetry) -
Red Wheelbarrow, The (Poetry) -
Spring and All (Poetry) -
This Is Just to Say (Poetry) -
To All Gentleness (Poetry) -
To Elsie (Poetry) -
Use of Force, The (Short Stories) -
Widow’s Lament in Springtime, The (Poetry) -
Wind Increases, The (Poetry) -
Yachts, The (Poetry) -
Young Housewife, The (Poetry) -
English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
