Cubism, Stieglitz, and the early poetry of William Carlos Williams : the hieroglyphics of a new speech /

Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during the 1920s affected Williams's work as much as, if not more than, the new writing of the period. Dijkstra catches the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dijkstra, Bram
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1978, c1969
Princeton, N.J. : 1978, ©1969
Series:Princeton paperbacks
Subjects:
Art
Table of Contents:
  • I The New York Avant Garde, 1910-1917 3
  • II The Poem as a Canvas of Broken Parts 47
  • III Stieglitz 82
  • IV The Evangelists of the American Moment 108
  • V Doctor Williams and the New World 127
  • VI The Hieroglyphics of a New Speech 145
  • VII The Poem as Still-Life 161
  • The New York avant garde, 1910-1917
  • The poem as a canvas of broken parts
  • Stieglitz
  • The evangelists of the American moment
  • Doctor Williams and the new world
  • The hieroglyphics of a new speech
  • The poem as still-life