William Carlos Williams on the Web
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Carlos Williams 1: General This website provides a short biography
with links to a complete list of works, information about the cultural
significance of New Jersey, and information about poets Williams has influenced.
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Carlos Williams 2: Poems This site contains 22 complete poems, including
"The Dance", "El Hombre", "Impromptu: The Suckers",
"Love Song", "The Sea-Elephant", and "The Red
Wheelbarrow".
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Carlos Williams 3: NYU This site contains links to annotated works,
complete with keywords, summaries, commentary, and other related information
about William Carlos Williams.
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Carlos Williams 4: UTexas This site examines the connections between
poetry and visual art in the works of William Carlos Williams. There is
a useful link to the 1913 Armory Show exhibition of painting and sculpture;
a link to Walter Arensberg's apartment, a salon off Central Park on West
67th Street where modernists would meet the host poet/patron and undoubtedly
'psych' other guests; a link to the galleries of 291, officially named
by Alfred Stieglitz the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession; and links
to informational outlines of Cubism and Dadaism.
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Carlos Williams 5: The Dial This site outlines the career of
Williams as a modernist. It also provides a bibliography of secondary scholarship
on Williams and offers links to e-texts of several poems, including 6 as
they appeared in The Dial, August 1920, pp 162-5.
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Carlos Williams 6: Visual Sources This University of North Carolina
at Wilmington site describes Williams in association with Cubism and Dadaism.
Other areas explore his artistic influences and contextualize personal,
educational, and occupational information. There are lists of publications,
awards and a small critical bibliography. The richest part of this site
examines the visual sources of his poetry complete with texts and images
of the influential paintings.
The William Carlos Williams Web Page was created
by Ben A. Johnson for Modernism: The American Salons, a class web project at Case Western Reserve University.
