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Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802) Burr portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men; thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles; Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and ...
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems is a 1962 book of poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. [1] It was Williams's final book, [2] for which he posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963. [3]
Set of first editions. Paterson is an epic poem by American poet William Carlos Williams published, in five volumes, from 1946 to 1958. The origin of the poem was an eighty-five line long poem written in 1926, after Williams had read and been influenced by James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
The Poetry Society of America presents the William Carlos Williams Award annually for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press. Williams's house in Rutherford was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [ 47 ]
The "Me" is what is learned in interaction with others and (more generally) with the environment: other people's attitudes, once internalized in the self, constitute the Me. [3] This includes both knowledge about that environment (including society), but also about who the person is: their sense of self. "What the individual is for himself is ...
The Wedge is a 1944 book of poems by American modernist writer and poet William Carlos Williams. He assembled this collection in response to requests from American servicemen during World War II for a pocket-sized collection of his work to take into deployment with them.
Alicia Keisker Van Buren (5 March 1860 – 11 April 1922) was an American composer, [1] singer, [2] painter, [3] and poet. [ 4 ] Van Buren was born in Louisville , Kentucky, where she attended public and unspecified private schools. [ 5 ]
Poems is an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams. It was published in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1909. The name William C. Williams is used for the cover and copyright notice, and W. C. Williams for the title page. The book is printed on Old Stratford paper. [1] [2]