William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism: Fitting the Crab in a Box

ISBN-13: 9781349121182 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 210 str.

Ron Callan

Opis

This book examines the achievements of William Carlos Williams in the context of the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thorgau and Walt Whitman. The author develops a narrative of sensibilities to enrich the understanding of transcendentalism.

Spis treści

Emerson: facing the ignoble world; Thoreau: a purely sensuous heaven; Whitman: a new distribution of roles; marriage out of despair: the Stetcher trilogy; caught half of the earth in ecstasy: the poems; the art of domestic husbandry: Paterson.