Spring and All
10 best books like Spring and All (William Carlos Williams): Four Quartets, The Waste Land, The Waves, Bread Givers, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Lunch Poems, Collected Poems, 1912-1944, Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston, Sea Garden, The Weary Blues
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0571068944 |
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0393974995 |
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156949601 |
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...
| Author | Anzia Yezierska |
| ISBN | 0892552905 |
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence...
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
| Author | Patricia Lockwood |
| ISBN | 0143126520 |
A breathtaking new collection from one of today’s boldest and most adventurous poets
Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens...
| Author | Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0872860353 |
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations,...
Of special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only...
| Author | Robert Frost |
| ISBN | 0451527879 |
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part...
The poems of Sea Garden, H.D.'s first collection of poetry, were written during the First World War, and is thoroughly infused with the influence of Imagism (the movement H.D. founded with Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington). The characteristics of Imagism can be found in an essay written by Ezra Pound,...
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.
From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book-"I am a Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa"-Hughes spoke directly, intimately,...
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| ISBN | 0571207790 |
Wallace Stevens’s verse—as exhibited in his first major work Harmonium (1923), published when he was forty-four—either jumps from one concrete sense impression to another, or else leaps beyond them all toward some particularized meditation filled with vivid imagery, lush sonority,...
| Author | Susan Howe |
| ISBN | 0938190520 |
My Emily Dickinson does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry.
This is more personal than a biography in that it is...
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0486298973 |
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. (Kellner, 1988, p. 61-62). Its publication in 1914 caused a great dispute between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Gertrude,...
