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“... as he stepped up his battle of words. Pound sought advice from the Berlin-based Nazi propagandist William Joyce (an Irishman known to his British enemies as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’) about effective broadcasting techniques. Maintaining he was the authentic voice of ‘United States heritage’, he made clear his particular opposition to ‘Churchill and ...”

“... One event dominated Tennessee Williams’s life: his sister Rose’s bilateral prefrontal lobotomy, performed on 13 January 1943, two years before The Glass Menagerie, the play he forged from her condition, was first produced. He rarely mentions the lobotomy in his private notebooks, the fragmented daybooks which he kept for much of his life, and which have now been edited, with sumptuous photographic and biographical supplementation, by Margaret Bradham Thornton, to whom devotees of Williams should be grateful ...”

“... Lowell and Berryman, whose work shows in every line, have had the attention they deserve, while William CarlosWilliams has been slighted or ignored. Frank O’Hara, like Eliot, inherited two traditions, one American, the other French. Although he says, half-serious, ‘of the American poets only Whitman and Crane ...”

“... in America, where he soon became part of the literary scene. Among the authors he charmed were William CarlosWilliams, Allen Tate and Robert Lowell. How a biographer inflects the story of Ford in the telling will depend on his own moral and aesthetic assumptions. Sympathetic accounts can deal with the lying by ...”

“... of wine/a woman with wit and spark.’ The overall impression is of Simon Armitage with turrets or William CarlosWilliams with a cracking hangover. The Monkey’s Mask cannot decide if it desires or despises us, but Porter is determined that we won’t be lulled or lightly entertained. This is a work which declares ...”

“... understand/why guacamole is/extra/it is because/you/were never/enough – rupi kaur.’ William CarlosWilliams is up there with her as a parodied subject, racking up thousands of posthumous likes for internet rewritings of ‘This Is Just to Say’ – the plums and icebox poem which can handily be tweaked ...”

“... the original?’ Even her most ambitious descriptions – those that bring her closest to, say, William CarlosWilliams, or to Edward Thomas for that matter – remind us that we see only what we have learned to see, what our lives and our societies will let us see, that there is no unmediated nature: The cold rays ...”

“... only to fellow writers such as Wyndham Lewis, E.E. Cummings, Ford Madox Ford, Louis Zukofsky and William CarlosWilliams, but also to various editors and patrons: to the somewhat mysterious Margaret Cravens, a Paris-based piano student from Madison, Indiana, who in 1910 bestowed on Pound an annual stipend so he could ...”

“... perhaps to re-create the disorientation of the senses recommended by Rimbaud and diagnosed by William James. The groupuscule we call the Beats (short for ‘beatitude’) was by 1961 geographically and emotionally scattered: Kerouac (barely present in Baker’s book) hunkered down at his mother’s house, Burroughs cocooned himself in Tangier, Neal ...”

“... as it must have been in life. Observing that he had ‘the most glittering IQ you ever met’, William Barrett at Partisan Review said of Jarrell that ‘one would be unlikely to take him for a poet at all, so intensely cerebral did he appear to be.’ In New York Jarrell’s nervous defensiveness intensified this impression – ‘uneasy with New York ...”

“... bizarre marriage of Ireland and America, of Paisley and Presley, come from? Was he reading William CarlosWilliams, or were the influences all vernacular, as he, the vernacular anthologist, might have us believe? Whichever, it was an unforgettable performance. Epochal books like that, invigorating and new, are a ...”

“... and is regarded as ‘a leading influence’ on his country’s writing, his world, like that of William CarlosWilliams, seems uninterested in academe but absorbed by family, business and event. There is the poem on the skeleton of the Great Moa – an avian prodigy, long extinct – in the Canterbury Museum at ...”

“... of the strength of the syllable and the short verse line such as one finds in Pound and Williams ... Eduardo Sanguineti ... implies that the anguish and religiosity of the later work is a touch willed and that there is reason to prefer Ungaretti’s moment of setting out ...’ ‘There is reason to prefer ...’ but how can that strike the many who ...”

“... stop with Eliot,’ he trumpeted. ‘He is merely the first. It is the restart of civilisation.’ William CarlosWilliams, working fairly happily as a doctor in New Jersey, was to be Pound’s second escapee. Marianne Moore might be his third. At one stage, he envisaged annual liberations – assuming, of course, that ...”

“... programmatic kind. It would not have been enough for him to set up as an Americanist writer in the William CarlosWilliams mould, using the shape and language of his poetry to declare a cultural allegiance, or responsibility. The language of Tate’s poems was unvaryingly sonorous/ poetic and his verse persona tended ...”