ABSTRACT
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |3 pages
‘Poems'
chapter 1|1 pages
Unsigned Review, Poems Composed in Odd Moments by One of Rutherford's Bright Young Men, ‘Rutherford American'
Thursday, 6 May 1909, no. 977, Supplement, 4
part |2 pages
‘The Tempers'
part |5 pages
‘A1 Que Quiere!'
chapter 4|3 pages
Dorothy Dudley, ‘A Small Garden Induced to Grow in Unlikely Surroundings', ‘Poetry'
Vol. XII, no. 1, April 1918, 38–43
chapter 5|1 pages
Conrad Aiken, Mr. Williams and His Caviar of Excessive Individualism, From ‘Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry'
New York, 1919, 184–5
part |11 pages
‘Kora in Hell: Improvisations'
chapter 8|1 pages
Helen Birch-Bartlett, on Williams' ‘Colossally Nice Simplicity', ‘Poetry’
Vol. XVII, no. 6, March 1921, 330, 331–2
chapter 9|1 pages
W.C. Blum, ‘Since-1914 the Wind has Blown only from Jersey', ‘Dial'
Vol. LXX, no. 5, May 1921, 565–6
part |5 pages
‘Sour Grapes'
part |9 pages
‘Spring and All'
chapter 12|1 pages
Marion Strobel, Middle-Aged Adolescence, ‘Poetry'
Vol. XXIII, No. 2, November 1923, 103–5
part |25 pages
‘In the American Grain'
chapter 15|2 pages
Henry Seidel Canby, Back to the Indian, ‘Saturday Review of Literature'
Vol. II, no. 21, 19 December 1925, 425, 430
chapter 16|2 pages
Kenneth Burke, Subjective History, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books'
14 March 1926, 7
chapter 18|1 pages
Hart Crane, From a Letter to Waldo Frank
21 November 1926, in ‘The Letters of Hart Crane', 277–8
chapter 19|15 pages
Gorham Munson, William Carlos Williams, A United States Poet, ‘Destinations: A Canvass of American Literature Since 1900'
1928, 101–35
part |9 pages
‘A Voyage to Pagany'
chapter 21|2 pages
Morley Callaghan, America Rediscovered, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books'
7 October 1928, 4
chapter 23|1 pages
Unsigned Review, Eccentric Narrative, ‘Saturday Review Of Literature'
16 March 1929
part |3 pages
‘The Knife of the Times and Other Stories'
chapter 24|1 pages
Unsigned Review Relating Williams' Imagism To His Technique In The Short Story, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books '
19 June 1932, 7
part |3 pages
‘Contact'
chapter 26|2 pages
Austin Warren, Some Periodicals Of The American Intelligentsia, ‘New English Weekly'
6 October 1932, 597
part |16 pages
‘Collected Poems 1921–1931'
chapter 27|3 pages
Wallace Stevens, Preface, Defines Williams' Poetry as Both Anti-Poetic and Romantic
1934
chapter 28|2 pages
Philip Blair Rice on Ground-Clearing in the Pioneer American Tradition, ‘Nation'
28 March 1934, 365–6
chapter 29|2 pages
Babette Deutsch, Williams, the Innocent Eye and the Thing-In-Itself, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books'
1 April 1934, 16-
chapter 30|2 pages
Marianne Moore, Things Others Never Notice, ‘Poetry'
Vol XLIV no. 2, May 1934, 103–6 (reprinted in ‘Predilections', 1955)
chapter 31|1 pages
William Carlos Williams on his own Sense of Resignation and Participation, Letter to Marianne Moore
2 May 1934, SL, 147
chapter 32|4 pages
WilliamBasil Bunting, Carlos Williams's Recent Poetry, ‘Westminster Magazine'
Vol. XXIII, no. 2, Summer 1934, 149–54
part |10 pages
‘White Mule'
chapter 34|2 pages
Alfred Kazin, Pure Speech, The Poet as Novelist, Review, ‘New York Times Book Review'
20 June 1937, 7
chapter 37|3 pages
Ford Madox Ford, The Fate of The Semiclassic: The Sad State of Publishing, ‘Forum'
Vol. 98, September 1937, 126–8
chapter 38|1 pages
Ford Madox Ford, From A Letter to Stanley Unwin, Written From New York City
18 January 1939
part |6 pages
‘Life Along the Passaic River'
chapter 42|1 pages
Robert Mcalmon Recollecting Williams in Paris in 1924, ‘Being Geniuses Together'
1938, 180–1 (
1
)
part |9 pages
‘The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1906–1938'
chapter 43|2 pages
Philip Horton On Williams' Inner Conflict Between Anti-Poeticism And Sentimentalism, ‘New Republic'
21 December 1938, 208
chapter 45|1 pages
Paul Rosenfeld On “The Least Naive Of Men … An Intellectual Poet', ‘Saturday Review'
1 February 1939, 16
chapter 46|1 pages
R. P. Blackmur On Williams' ‘Unexpanded Notation', ‘Partisan Review’
Vol. VI, no. 2, Winter 1939, 114
part |4 pages
‘In the Money'
chapter 48|2 pages
Paul Rosenfeld On ‘A Sort Of Spiritual Prolongation Of The Voyages Of Columbus', ‘Nation'
23 November 1940, 507–8
part |4 pages
‘The Wedge'
chapter 49|1 pages
Randall Jarrell On The America Of Poets, ‘Partisan Review'
Vol. XII, no. 1, 1945, 122–3
part |15 pages
‘Patterson (Book One)'
chapter 51|1 pages
Isaac Rosenfeld, the Poetry and Wisdom of Paterson, ‘Nation'
24 August 1946, 216–17
chapter 52|4 pages
Randall Jarrell, Review of ‘The Best Thing William Carlos Williams has Ever Written', ‘Partisan Review'
Vol. XIII, September-October 1946, 493–8.
chapter 53|2 pages
Parker Tyler, from the Poet of Paterson Book One, ‘Briarcliff Quarterly'
No. III, October 1946, 169–70
chapter 55|3 pages
Robert Lowell, ‘a Sort of Anti-Cantos Rooted in America', ‘Sewanee Review'
Vol. LV, Summer 1947, 500–3
part |11 pages
‘Patterson (Book Two)'
chapter 57|5 pages
Leslie Fiedler, Some Uses and Failures of Feeling, ‘Partisan Review
Vol XV, no. 8, August 1948, 924, 927–31
chapter 58|3 pages
Louis L. Martz, Anticipating Williams' Conclusion That ‘the Virtue Is All in the Effort', ‘Yale Review’
Vol XXXVIII, no. 1, Autumn 1948, 147–50
part |3 pages
‘A Dream of Love'
chapter 60|1 pages
R. W. Flint, ‘A Fatal Incoherence At the Centre', ‘Kenyon Review'
Vol, XII, no. 3, Summer 1950, 541–2
part |8 pages
‘Selected Poems'
chapter 61|4 pages
Robert Fitzgerald Compares And Contrasts The Poems Of Williams And Willam Empson, ‘New Republic'
25 April 1949, 22–3
chapter 62|1 pages
Rolfe Humphries On Organic Form And The ‘Machine Made Of Words', ‘Nation'
9 July 1949, 44
chapter 63|2 pages
Richard Wilbur On Williams' ‘Essentially Mystic Or Magic Feeling', ‘Sewanee Review’
Vol. LVIII, no. 1, Winter 1950, 137–40
part |12 pages
‘Patterson (Book Three)'
chapter 65|1 pages
Richard Ellmann, ‘The Most Pro-Poetic Of Poems', ‘Yale Review'
Vol. XXIX, no. 3, Spring 1950, 543–5.
chapter 66|6 pages
Monroe K. Spears, Imitative Form And ‘The Failure Of Language', ‘Poetry'
Vol. LXXVI, no. 1, April 1950, 39–44
chapter 67|3 pages
Hayden Carruth On The Verse Line ‘Hung Over, Like A Dali Watch', ‘Nation'
8 April 1950, 331–2
part |5 pages
‘The Collected Later Poems'
chapter 69|1 pages
Unsigned Review, An American Poet, ‘Times Literary Supplement'
23 March 1951, 178.
chapter 70|2 pages
David Daiches on Williams' American Poetic ‘Inscape', ‘Yale Review’
Vol. XLI, no. 1, Autumn 1951, 153–5
part |5 pages
‘Make Light of It: Collected Stories'
chapter 71|1 pages
Babette Deutsch on The Technique of Carelessness, ‘New York Herald Tribune Books'
3 December 1950, 5
chapter 72|2 pages
Robert Halsband, I Lived Among These People, ‘Saturday Review'
9 December 1950, 14–15
chapter 73|1 pages
Robert Gorham Davis, Stories, to Mr. WIlliams, are Swift Experiences, ‘New York Times Book Review'
17 December 1950, 1, 12
part |14 pages
‘Patterson (Book Four)'
chapter 74|1 pages
Richard Eberhart, A Vision Welded to the World, ‘New York Times Book Review'
17 June 1951, 5, 18
chapter 75|1 pages
Dudley Fitts on ‘A More or Less Triumphant Conclusion' , ‘Saturday Review'
21 July 1951, 23
chapter 76|2 pages
Hayden Carruth on ‘Paterson' As Lyrical Meditation, ‘Nation'
25 August 1951, 155–6
chapter 78|4 pages
Randall Jarrell, ‘… “Paterson” Has Been Getting Rather Steadily Worse', ‘Partisan Review'
Vol. XVIII, no. 6, November-December 1951, 698–700
chapter 79|4 pages
Unsigned Review, Poet of An Industrial Society, ‘Times Literary Supplement'
No. 2,609, 1 February 1952, 95
part |12 pages
‘Autobiography'
chapter 80|1 pages
Harvey Breit on ‘An Unembellished, Honest Man of Letters', ‘Atlantic Monthly'
October 1951, 82–3
chapter 82|4 pages
Matthew Josephson, Williams as an Embodiment of the ‘Amateur Spirit', ‘Saturday Review'
20 October 1951, 10–11
chapter 84|2 pages
Richard Ellmann, The Doctor in Search of Himself, ‘Kenyon Review'
Vol. XIV, no. 1, Winter 1952, 511–12
part |14 pages
‘The Collected Earlier Poems'
chapter 87|10 pages
Joseph Bennett, The Lyre and the Sledgehammer, ‘Hudson Review'
Vol. V, no. 2, Summer 1952, 295–307
part |3 pages
‘The Build-Up'
chapter 88|1 pages
Winfield Townley Scott, ‘A Joy In People And A Passion For Life', ‘New York Herald Tribune Books'
2 November 1952, 6
chapter 89|1 pages
Ernest Jones, ‘The Excitement Of The Facts Is All There Is', ‘Nation'
8 November 1952, 434
part |8 pages
‘The Desert Music'
chapter 92|1 pages
William Carlos Williams Explains his Theory of Measure in a Letter to Richard Eberhart
23 May 1954, included in SL, 325–7
chapter 93|2 pages
Louis L. Martz, in the Pastoral Mode, ‘Yale Review'
Vol. XLIV, no. 2, Winter 1955, 303–5
part |11 pages
‘Selected Essays'
chapter 94|3 pages
Nicholas Joost, The Development of an American Poet, ‘Commonweal'
Vol. LXI, no. 10, 10 December 1954, 291–3
chapter 96|5 pages
Thomas H. Carter on Williams' ‘Campaign Bulletins', ‘Shenandoah’
Vol. VI, no. 2, Spring 1955, 72–7
part |7 pages
‘Journey to Love'
chapter 97|1 pages
Wallace Fowlie, The World in his Hands, ‘New York Times Book Review'
18 December 1955
chapter 98|1 pages
Richard Eberhart on Measure, The Speaking Voice and Direct Wisdom, ‘Saturday Review'
18 February 1956, 49
chapter 99|4 pages
Paul Goodman, Between the Flash and the Thunderstroke, ‘Poetry'
Vol. LXXXVII, no. 6, March 1956, 366–70.
part |10 pages
‘The Selected Letters'
chapter 100|1 pages
Winfield Townley Scott, ‘For the Local, the Regional, and for American speech', ‘Saturday Review'
7 September 1957, 14
chapter 102|1 pages
Reed Whittemore on Williams As An Experimental Poet and A Conventional Letter Writer, ‘Yale Review'
Vol. XLVII, no. 2, December 1957, 286–7
part |5 pages
‘I Wanted to Write a Poem'
chapter 104|1 pages
Winfield Townley Scott, Some Talk About Verse, ‘New York Times Book Review'
13 December 1958, 26
chapter 105|3 pages
Hugh Kenner, To Measure Is All We Know, ‘Poetry'
Vol. XCIV, no. 2, May 1959, 127–32
part |8 pages
‘Patterson (Book Five)'
chapter 106|2 pages
M. L. Rosenthal On ‘The Transforming And Saving Power Of The Imagination', ‘Nation'
31 May 1958, 500
chapter 107|1 pages
W. D. Snodgrass On Williams' Late Change Towards ‘Conventional English Poetry', ‘Hudson Review’
Vol. XII, no. 1, Spring 1959, 117–19
chapter 108|3 pages
Charles Olson On ‘Paterson' As Process, ‘Evergreen Review'
No. 11, Summer 1959, 220–1
chapter 109|1 pages
John Berryman On An ‘Ecstatic Addendum' To ‘Paterson', ‘American Scholar’
Vol. XXVIII, no. 3, Summer 1959, 390
part |3 pages
‘Yes, Mrs Williams'
chapter 110|1 pages
John C. Thirlwall, Portrait Of A Poet As His Mother'S Son, ‘New York Times Book Review'
28 June 1959, 4
chapter 111|1 pages
Thomas Parkinson, ‘I Was Listening With My Very Eyes', ‘San Francisco Chronicle'
19 July 1959, 18
part |6 pages
‘The Farmers' Daughters'
chapter 112|2 pages
Irving Howe On Williams' Use Of Organic Form And ‘Precise Miniatures Of Daily Life', ‘New Republic’
13 November 1961, 18–19
chapter 113|3 pages
Arthur M. Kay On ‘a Matter-Of-Factness That Rivals Defoe's', ‘Arizona Quarterly’
Vol. XVII, no. 4, Winter 1962, 368–70
part |7 pages
‘Many Loves and Other Plays'
chapter 115|1 pages
Norman Holmes Pearson, Review, ‘Yale Review'
Vol. II, no. 2, December 1961, 331–2
part |13 pages
‘Pictures from Brueghel'
chapter 117|1 pages
Stanley Kunitz, Frost, Williams, and Company, ‘Harper's Magazine'
October 1962, 100–1
chapter 119|2 pages
Alan Stephens, Dr. Williams and Tradition, ‘Poetry'
Vol. Ci, no. 5, January 1963, 360–2
chapter 122|3 pages
Thom Gunn on ‘A Valid Alternative of Style and Attitude', ‘Encounter'
Vol. XXV, no. 1, July 1965, 73–4
part |31 pages
Valedictories
chapter 124|5 pages
Hayden Carruth, William Carlos Williams as One of Us, ‘New Republic
13 April 1963, 30–2
chapter 125|10 pages
Kenneth Burke, William Carlos Williams 1883–1963, ‘New York Review of Books'
Vol. I, no. 2, Spring-Summer 1963, 45–7
chapter 126|7 pages
Peter Whigham, William Carlos Williams, ‘Agenda'
Vol. III, no. 2, October-November 1963, 25–32
chapter 127|7 pages
Edward Dahlberg, Word-Sick and Place-Crazy, from ‘Alms for Oblivion' ( 1 )
1964, 20–7
part |4 pages
‘The Collected Later Poems'
chapter 128|1 pages
Ames Dickey, First and last Things, ‘Poetry'
Vol. CIII, no. 5, February 1964, 321–2
part |10 pages
The William Carlos Williams Reader'
chapter 131|1 pages
Unsigned Review, the Williams Grain, ‘Times Literary Supplement'
13 April 1967, 305
chapter 132|5 pages
Charles Tomlinson, Dr. Williams' Practice, ‘Encounter'
Vol. XXIX, no. 5, November 1967, 66–9
