{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-william-carlos-williamss-poetry-9781571134813","title":"The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and \u003ci\u003ePaterson\u003c\/i\u003e as an ethical autobiography in progress.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963) is the most influential figure in the development of American poetry in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. His simple language and focus on the familiar objects and voices of everyday life pulled poetry out of the past and restored its ability to express contemporary experience. Williams believed passionately in poetry's usefulness, abhorring its perception as an esoteric pursuit and insisting on the impact it could have on the life of a reader if only made relevant to his or her experience. Examining the sources of this belief, Ian Copestake breaks new ground by tracing the enduring impact of Williams's youthful experience of Unitarianism on his poetry and arguing that Williams is a poet in an Emersonian tradition.\u003cbr\u003e  Two chapters focus on Williams's long poem \u003ci\u003ePaterson,\u003c\/i\u003e arguing that its long gestation -- from 1927 to 1951 -- reflects its role asan ethical  autobiography in progress. Copestake investigates sources that point to the ethical heart of Williams's poetry and to his lifelong belief that \"It is difficult \/ to get the news from poems \/ yet men die miserably every day \/ for lack \/ of what is found there.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Ian D. Copestake is a Lecturer at the University of Bamberg, Germany and editor of the \u003ci\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Ian D. Copestake","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280274731259,"sku":"9781571134813","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571134813.jpg?v=1772484897","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-ethics-of-william-carlos-williamss-poetry-9781571134813","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}