Early Poems

The most comprehensive collection of William Carlos Williams' early verse in immaculate, Kindle-friendly format. Includes Poems (1909), The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), Kora in Hell (1920), Sour Grapes (1921), and several other poems published from 1909 to 1922; with an active table of contents, correct spacing/breaks, and automatic (poetic) indentation for any size frame or font.

Also appended to this exclusive edition are several contemporary reviews of Williams' work as originally published in The Dial and Poetry Magazine.

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CONTENTS:

Poems (1909):

INNOCENCE

TO SIMPLICITY

JUNE

BALLAD OF THE TIME AND THE PEASANT

TO HIS LADY WITH A QUEER NAME

THE USES OF POETRY

THE QUEST OF HAPPINESS

JULY

IMITATIONS

LOVE

TO A FRIEND

TO MY BETTER SELF

A STREET MARKET, N.Y., 1908

SEPTEMBER

THE LONELINESS OF LIFE

WISTFULNESS IN IDLENESS

ON THINKING OF A DISTANT FRIEND

TO A LADY

TO THE UNKNOWN LADY

NOVEMBER

ON A PROPOSED TRIP SOUTH

THE FOLLY OF PRECOCCUPATION

THE BEWILDERMENT OF YOUTH

THE BEWILDERMENT OF AGE

HYMN TO THE SPIRIT OF FRATERNAL LOVE

HYMN TO PERFECTION

The Tempers (1913):

PEACE ON EARTH

POSTLUDE

FIRST PRAISE

HOMAGE

THE FOOL'S SONG

FROM "THE BIRTH OF VENUS," SONG

IMMORTAL

MEZZO FORTE

AN AFTER SONG

CRUDE LAMENT

THE ORDEAL

THE DEATH OF FRANCO OF COLOGNE: HIS PROPHECY OF BEETHOVEN

PORTENT

CON BRIO

AD INFINITUM

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SPANISH, "EL ROMANCERO"

HIC JACET

CONTEMPORANIA

TO WISH MYSELF COURAGE

Al Que Quiere! (1917):

SUB TERRA

PASTORAL ("When I was younger")

CHICKORY AND DAISIES

METRIC FIGURE

WOMAN WALKING

GULLS

APPEAL

IN HARBOR

WINTER SUNSET

APOLOGY

PASTORAL ("The little sparrows")

LOVE SONG

M.B.

TRACT

PROMENADE

EL HOMBRE

HERO

LIBERTAD! IGUALDAD! FRATERNIDAD!

CANTHARA

MUJER

SUMMER SONG

LOVE SONG ("Sweep the house clean,")

FOREIGN

A PRELUDE

HISTORY

WINTER QUIET

DAWN

GOOD NIGHT

DANSE RUSSE

PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN BED

VIRTUE

CONQUEST

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A BAD HEART

KELLER GEGEN DOM

SMELL!

BALLET

SYMPATHETIC PORTRAIT OF A CHILD

THE OGRE

RIPOSTE

THE OLD MEN

PASTORAL ("If I say I have heard voices")

SPRING STRAINS

TREES

A PORTRAIT IN GREYS

INVITATION

DIVERTIMIENTO

JANUARY MORNING

TO A SOLITARY DISCIPLE

DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND

K. MCB

LOVE SONG ("I lie here thinking of you:ó")

THE WANDERER

Kora in Hell: Improvisations (1920):

PROLOGUE (with active links to Notes)

IMPROVISATIONS I-XXVII

Sour Grapes (1921):

THE LATE SINGER

MARCH

BERKET AND THE STARS

A CELEBRATION

APRIL

A GOODNIGHT

OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES

ROMANCE MODERNE

THE DESOLATE FIELD

WILLOW POEM

APPROACH OF WINTER

JANUARY

BLIZZARD

TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY

WINTER TREES