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“It seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to.”

— Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books on William Carlos Williams's By Word of Mouth

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Filter: Scholarly Work - (22 titles)

Selected Poetry And Prose

Selected Poetry And Prose

In The Green Morning

In The Green Morning

Pre-Faces & Other Writings

Pre-Faces & Other Writings

The Literary Essays Of Thomas Merton

The Literary Essays Of Thomas Merton

The Wisdom Of St. Francis and His Companions

The Wisdom Of St. Francis and His Companions

Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Women Poets Of Japan

Women Poets Of Japan

The Collected Stories Of Dylan Thomas

The Collected Stories Of Dylan Thomas

Classics Revisited

Classics Revisited

Something To Say

Something To Say

Ezra Pound And The Visual Arts

Ezra Pound And The Visual Arts

Pound/Ford

Pound/Ford

Ezra Pound And Music

Ezra Pound And Music

A Recognizable Image

A Recognizable Image

Memories Of The Moderns

Memories Of The Moderns

Voltaire

Voltaire

Complete Poems Of Li Ch’ing-Chao

Complete Poems Of Li Ch’ing-Chao

Women Poets Of China

Women Poets Of China

Collected Early Poems

Collected Early Poems

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."

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