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“... avant garde, of American talent was centred on London. Well, not all: Dreiser, Eugene O’Neill, William CarlosWilliams and Wallace Stevens (like Pound and his protégés, an early contributor to Poetry, Chicago) stayed behind; so did the group of young painters and photographers associated with Alfred Stieglitz’s ...”

“... a conservative aesthetic, but in their later poems, they caught up with the American Modernists (William CarlosWilliams describing the peeling cityscape outside his window): by the time she wrote ‘Requiem’ and he wrote ‘Lines on an Unknown Soldier’, both formally innovative and both concerned with recording ...”

“... his life that not everyone else had done so. ‘The pure products of America go crazy,’ William CarlosWilliams wrote. Sometimes, they are simply ...”

“... textile industry for three generations, and Edward expanded the family business by partnering with William Scofield, his Harvard classmate and Florence’s brother. A leading wool manufacturer, Edward bought the fanciest house in town (his son would call it an ‘orgulous pile’) and a steam yacht (which his wife promptly made him sell) before dying of ...”

“... patients. In the cultivation of a detached but vigorous humanism, Verghese often reminds one of William CarlosWilliams, who drew on his own experience as an obstetrician and general practitioner in stories about his patients. Williams describes his own relation with patients in ...”

“... gives a more perceptive insight into the nature of being American than any book I know apart from William CarlosWilliams’s In the American Grain. A special sort of American, of course. Nothing to do with the traditions of the Eastern seaboard or the Deep South. Born in Illinois, but into an Air Force family, Shepard ...”

“... like Heidegger-lite. For Brown, the clearest statement of good fetishism’s purpose and method is William CarlosWilliams’s brisk ultimatum: ‘No ideas but in things.’ This does not mean that there should be no ideas at all, Brown explains. It means rather that ‘the poet should recognise things as the necessary ...”

“... into cultural originality.’ Having taken the cultural lead America could now export what William CarlosWilliams called its ‘rich regenerative violence’ to the rest of the civilised world. This isn’t the usual history of the modern, and it could be contested: the three cities of Dada are Zurich, Paris ...”

“... the New York Public Library, persuaded Bishop to take up poetry rather than medicine after Vassar; William CarlosWilliams reported after a reading: ‘Marianne Moore had a little girl named Elizabeth Bishop in tow. It seems she writes poetry.’ Moore is hymned here in one of Bishop’s less successful ...”

“... poetic scene is full of people who believe that by writing like Edward Thomas, on the one hand, or William CarlosWilliams, on the other, they can recover or reconstitute innocence in their medium. And even a senior poet like Norman MacCaig, who is too old a hand to chase such a will of the wisp, has nevertheless over ...”

“... Paz’s recurring references are to Baudelaire and Nerval, but his work is often close to that of William CarlosWilliams and Wallace Stevens. Weinberger tells us that when he (correctly) identified a touch of Whitman in the title and rhythms of the poem ‘I Speak of the City’, Paz said: ‘No, I was thinking of ...”

“... best-known poet: he is also an internationally respected immunologist. Like the American poet William CarlosWilliams, whose work he greatly admires, Holub has always insisted that scientific and poetic enquiry constantly overlap. Holub, though, is far readier than Williams ever ...”

“... in art and stultifying Victorian versifying. Some of this vast body of poetry was superb (William CarlosWilliams), most of it mediocre and some of it dreadful. Burke’s verse hovers around the middle of the spectrum, the best of it plain-spoken and terse in the American idiom which ...”

“... but they were smart and talented, as were the painters associated with the gallery: William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, Norman Bluhm and Fairfield Porter. It all made for a vigorous little scene, a fair bit of it played out at the ...”

“... famous names here, Jarrell’s not one to set beside them. Even in his own country, his biographer William Pritchard says, his reputation ‘is not nearly so firm and pre-eminent as I think it deserves to be’. This biography and a selection from the poems (a severe weeding, no more than a fifth surviving) are meant to put that right. Pritchard’s book is ...”