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Pictures From Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry

by William Carlos Williams
Pictures From Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry
Pictures From Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry

Evocative poems mastering American idiom and rhythm.

If you appreciate the blend of visual art and eloquent verse, Williams' "Pictures from Brueghel" can offer an enriching experience. It's acclaimed not just for the poet's technical prowess but for its deep resonance with the American spirit. Plus, it houses "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," a stunning love poem that alone might tug at the strings of your heart.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1963)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (1963)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Pictures From Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry

by William Carlos Williams
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ISBN: 9780811202343
Authors: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Books
Date of Publication: 1962-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art
Related Topics: Art and Photography
Goodreads rating: 4.23
(rated by 1564 readers)

Description

This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955), originally published by Random House. In these books, Dr. Williams perfected his "variable foot" metric and achieved full mastery of the "American idiom" which was his lifelong first concern. Among the poems of this period is the long "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" which W. H. Auden has called "one of the most beautiful love poems in the language." Pictures from Brueghel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry only two months after William Carlos Williams' death on March 4, 1963.
 

Evocative poems mastering American idiom and rhythm.

If you appreciate the blend of visual art and eloquent verse, Williams' "Pictures from Brueghel" can offer an enriching experience. It's acclaimed not just for the poet's technical prowess but for its deep resonance with the American spirit. Plus, it houses "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," a stunning love poem that alone might tug at the strings of your heart.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1963)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (1963)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.