“... is from one of Keats’s letters). She seems to have no special affinity for Eliot or Auden or William CarlosWilliams, although she has written well about the first two. (But then she will surprise, as she should, by praising Donald Davie, or attending to Allen Ginsberg.) If the lyric poem is self-contained and in ...”

“... and endure’.In fairness, Heaney is hardly the only poet to wring himself thus. In this century, William CarlosWilliams was also obsessed with howBeauty should make us paupers,should blind us, rob us – for itdoes not feed the sufferer.Equally, the world that Heaney has been enduring since the mid-Sixties has often ...”

“... exerted on the apprentice songwriter Russell by poets such as Ginsberg, Robert Bly and Ezra Pound; William CarlosWilliams and Robert Creeley in particular inspired the ‘idea of using simple language to convey something very beautiful’. Russell also spoke about how he wanted his home-studio ‘echo system’ to ...”

“... do no more than mark that wildness’s grave. Being by trade a poet of plain language – William CarlosWilliams would be another hero, also George Oppen, also Eileen Myles – Nelson finds her artistic focus drawn in two main directions. On the one hand, she crafts her words until she gets them to ...”

“... invited him to his home in Worcester. There, Fisher saw for the first time the work of the later William CarlosWilliams, Basil Bunting, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson and others. ‘I’d never seen poetry used as these people were, in their various ways, using ...”

“... Each appears here in a representative figure: the bibliographer Fredson Bowers and the interpreter William K. Wimsatt. McKenzie singles them out for tactical purposes – that is to say, in order to place each of them at the centre of his double-focused critique of the traditional theory of texts. ‘There is nothing outside of the text.’ That well-known ...”

“... taste: oodles of Robert Herrick, but only one poem attributed to John Donne; seven poems by William Drummond, but just one by George Herbert; more than ninety men, but just five women (three of them Scots); far more poems by Wordsworth than by anybody else.Palgrave assembled his anthology while working in London as a civil servant at the Education ...”

“... kids you had But, most of all, its collage of vignettes – as though written by a hallucinated William CarlosWilliams – were meant to be self-erasing illusions in an illusory world. ‘In my poetry,’ Gu Cheng once wrote, ‘the city disappears and what appears instead is a piece of grazing land.’ In its ...”

“... composed a short poem for him: ‘Marcel, Marcel, I Love You Like Hell, Marcel.’) She disgusted William CarlosWilliams; she terrified Wallace Stevens. She wore cancelled postage stamps on her cheeks as beauty spots, and dressed in outfits one would think Barnes had invented had they not been confirmed by other ...”

“... as Mariani shows, he could inspire extreme affection in people. But too soon they would feel, as William CarlosWilliams wrote, ‘uncomfortable’ with his ‘roaring boy, predatory reputation’. It seemed that nothing could contain him, except his poetry. So when the poetry stopped, in a very real sense he had ...”

“... everything on poetry attaining to the condition (the concreteness) of the visual – I think of William CarlosWilliams – find that when it comes to writing about the images they admire most the task ends up destroying their parti pris. ‘No ideas but in things’ is the war cry. Bruegel is chef de file. But the ...”

“... most of the most outlandish things still lay ahead of him, and he was stuck in the Canary Islands, William CarlosWilliams wrote: ‘Bunting is living the life, I don’t know how sufficiently to praise him for it. But it can’t be very comfortable to exist that way. I feel uneasy not to be sending him his year’s ...”

“... on her fellow student Peggy James, Mary ‘courted’ her too (‘courted’ is Leavell’s word): William James’s daughter was very much ‘our kind’, and since Mary expected her family to live together always, she could only assume that Peggy would be joining the household – whether as Marianne’s partner or Warner’s was immaterial. But Marianne’s ...”

“... of the particular or the concrete as these things would have been understood by Ezra Pound or William CarlosWilliams; they have an occluded quality, or the opacity of calligraphy or inscription (‘that parchment-like face’). Civilisation, history and culture – the Buddha’s head; Benedikt’s severed head ...”

“... of an earlier generation, Duncan finds in the work of his modernist ‘elders’ – H.D., Pound, William CarlosWilliams, D.H. Lawrence, even T.S. Eliot, whom he considered ‘too cautious to be great’ – support for the Romantic proposition that literature was ‘a text of the soul in its search for fulfilment in ...”