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William Carlos Williams

Bibliography

 

Primary Sources:

    • The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume I, 1909-1939. Ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1986

 

    • The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: Volume II, 1939-1962. Ed. Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1988.

 

    • Poems. Privately printed 1909

 

    • Paterson. New York: New Directions 1963

 

    • The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951). New York: Random House; New Directions rpt. 1967.

 

    • Yes, Mrs. Williams: A Personal Record of My Mother. (1959) New York: McDoweIl, Obolensky; rpt. New Directions, 1982.

 

    • The Embodiment of Knowledge. Ed. Ron Loewinsohn. New York: New Directions, 1974.

 

    • Imaginations. Ed. Webster Schott. New York: New Directions, 1970.

 

    • In the American Grain (1925). New York: Albert & Charles Boni; rpt. New Directions, 1956

 

    • A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists. Ed. Bram Djikstra. New York: New Directions, 1978

 

    • Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams (1954). New York: Random House ; rpt. New Directions 1969.

 

Correspondence:

    • The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957). Ed. John C. Thirlwall. New York: McDowell, Obolensky; rpt. New Directions 1984.

 

    • The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams. Ed. Christopher MacGowan, New York: New Directions, 1998.

 

    • Witemeyer, Hugh, ed. Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, 1996.

 

    • Witemeyer, Hugh, ed. William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin : Selected Letters. New York: Norton, 1989.

 

Miscellanea:

    • Breslin, James E., ed. Something to Say: William Carlos Williams on Younger Poets. New York: New Directions, 1985.

 

Bibliographical Studies:

    • Wallace, Emily Mitchell. A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1968.

 

Criticism:

    • Ahearn, Barry. William Carlos Williams and Alterity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.

 

    • Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese, eds. Critical Essays on William Carlos Williams. New York: G.K. Hall, 1995.

 

    • B?n, Zs--fia. Desire and De-Scription: Words and Images of Postmodernism in the Late Poetry of William Carlos Williams. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

 

    • Bernstein, Charles. Content's Dream: Essays, 1975-1984. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986.

 

    • Bloom, Clive and Brian Docherty, eds. American Poetry - the Modernist Ideal. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

 

    • Bremen, Brian A. William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

 

    • Breslin, James E. William Carlos Williams: An American Artist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

 

    • Callan, Ron. William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism: Fitting the Crab in a Box. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

 

    • Comens, Bruce. Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.

 

    • Conrad, Bryce. Refiguring America: A Study of William Carlos Williams' in the American Grain. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

 

    • Crawford, T. Hugh. Modernism, Medicine & William Carlos Williams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

 

    • Cushman, Stephen. William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

 

    • Diggory, Terence. William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

 

    • Djikstra, Bram. Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams: The Hieroglyphics of New Speech. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.

 

    • Duffey, Bernard. A Poetry of Presence: The Writing of William Carlos Williams. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

 

    • Frail, David. The Early Politics and Poetics of William Carlos Williams. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1987.

 

    • Gish, Robert. William Carlos Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.

 

    • Gregory, Elizabeth. Quotation and Modern American Poetry: Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads. Houston: Rice University Press, 1996.

 

    • Koehler, Stanley. Countries of the Mind: The Poetry of William Carlos Williams. Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press, 1998.

 

    • Kutzinski, Vera M. Against the American Grain: Myth and History in William Carlos Williams,

 

    • Jay Wright, and Nicol?s Guill?n. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

 

    • Laughlin, James. Remembering William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, 1995.

 

    • Lowney, John. The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory. Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 1997.

 

    • MacGowan, Christopher J. William Carlos Williams' Early Poetry: The Visual Arts Background. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press., 1984.

 

    • Mariani, Paul. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

 

    • Mariani, Paul L. A Usable Past: Essays on Modern & Contemporary Poetry. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.

 

    • Markos, Donald W. Ideas in Things: The Poems of William Carlos Williams. London: Associated University Presses, 1994.

 

    • Marling, William. William Carlos Williams and the Painters 1909-1923. Athens: Ohio University Press., 1982.

 

    • Marsh, Alec. Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.

 

    • Marz?n, Julio. The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

 

    • Mester, Terri A. Movement and Modernism: Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Williams, and Early Twentieth-Century Dance. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997.

 

    • Morris, Daniel. The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995.

 

    • Rapp, Carl. William Carlos Williams and Romantic Idealism. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1984.

 

    • Sayre, Henry M. The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

 

    • Schmidt, Peter. William Carlos Williams: The Arts, and Literary Tradition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

 

    • Steinman, Lisa. Made in America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

 

    • Tapscott, Stephen. American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

 

    • Tichi, Cecelia. Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

 

    • Townley, Rod. The Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams. lthaca: Cornell UP, 1975.

 

    • Underwood, Edward. A History That Includes the Self: Essays on the Poetry of Stefan George, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. New York: Garland, 1988.

 

    • Walker, David. The Transparent Lyric: Reading and Meaning in the Poetry of Stevens and Williams. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

 

    • Whitaker, Thomas R. William Carlos Williams. Boston: Twayne, 1989.