Pictures from Brueghel, and other poems : collected poems 1950-1962

Author(s)

• Williams, William Carlos

Bibliographic Information

Pictures from Brueghel, and other poems : collected poems 1950-1962

by William Carlos Williams

（A New Directions paperbook, 118）

New Directions, 1962

Note

"Pulitzer Prize in poetry"--Cover

Description and Table of Contents

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA11437456
• ISBN:
  • 0811202348
• LCCN: 62010410
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 184 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC18 : 811.52
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00345403