Poems

基本信息

Author: Virginia M. Wright-Peterson

Format: Hardback | 80 pages

Publisher University of Illinois Press

ISBN10 0252027485

ISBN13 9780252027482

Publication date 01 Jul 2002

Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 12.7mm | 199.58g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍内容

威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯被公认为美国诗歌领域重要的创新者，他委托印刷商出版了100本《诗歌》(1909)，这是一本很大程度上模仿了浪漫主义和维多利亚时代风格的小诗集。这本书收录了威廉姆斯自己出版的《诗作》，这是他对文坛的一次尝试，其中包括他在欧洲呆了将近一年，重新思考诗歌及其写作方法后所作的未发表的笔记。《诗》展示了他试探性地向诗歌迈出的第一步，而笔记则展示了他准备在他的艺术上做出巨大改变。

Before William Carlos Williams was recognized as one of the most important innovators in American poetry, he commissioned a printer to publish 100 copies of "Poems" (1909), a small collection largely imitating the styles of the Romantics and the Victorians. This volume collects the self-published edition of "Poems", Williams' foray into the world of letters, with previously unpublished notes he made after spending nearly a year in Europe rethinking poetry and how to write it. As "Poems" shows his first tentative steps into poetry, the notes show him as he prepares to make a giant transformation in his art. Shortly after "Poems" appeared, Williams went through a series of experiences that changed his life - a trip to Europe, a marriage to the sister of the woman he genuinely loved, and the establishment of his medical practice. In Europe he was introduced to a consideration of an unlikely trio: Heinrich Heine, Martin Luther, and Richard Wagner, resulting in an exposure that subsequently influenced his developing style. Williams looked back on Poems as apprentice work, calling them, "bad Keats, nothing else - oh well, bad Whitman too. But I sure loved them...There is not one thing of the slightest value in the whole thin booklet - except the intent", and never republished the collection.

Now that Williams' work is widely read and appreciated, his reputation secure, his development as a poet is a matter worth serious study, "Poems" can be seen as a point of departure, a clear record of where Williams began before his life and ideas about poetry made seismic shifts. Virginia M. Wright-Peterson's succinct introduction puts "Poems" in the context of his life and times, discusses the reception of the volume, his reconsideration of the poems, and what they reveal about his poetic ambitions.

作者简介

弗吉尼亚·赖特-彼得森是罗彻斯特人，曾在明尼苏达州和亚利桑那州的梅奥诊所担任行政职务17年，曾是阿尔及利亚阿尔及尔的富布赖特学者，并在美国驻伊拉克军事基地为红十字会工作。她拥有内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校的英语博士学位，教授英语和人文学科达13年之久。她目前是明尼苏达大学罗彻斯特分校的行政团队成员。

Virginia Wright-Peterson, a native of Rochester, served in administrative capacities for Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and Arizona for seventeen years, was a Fulbright Scholar in Algiers, Algeria, and worked with the Red Cross on a U.S. military base in Iraq. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and has taught English and humanities for thirteen years. She is currently on the administrative team at University of Minnesota Rochester.