Biografia William C. Williams |
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William Carlos Williams
Nato a Rutherford (New Jersey) nel 1883 (morì nel 1963), di padre inglese d di madre di origine caraibica, si laureò in medi cina all'università di Pennsylvania; qui conobbe Ezra Pound e H. Doolittle. Dopo un periodo passato a New York, tornò a Rutherford per praticare la medicina e la poesia, viste come due modi com plementari di conoscenza dell'uomo e del suo linguaggio. Già in Gli umori (The tempers, 1913) e Primavera e tutto (Spring and all, 1923) è la poetica "americana" che si esprime nel principio "niente idee se non nelle cose". Allontanandosi da Pound e da Eliot, muove alla ricerca di un linguaggio capace di ospitare materiali nuovi ed eterogenei, oggetti apparentemente irrilevanti (come la "carriola rossa", lucida di pioggia, in una sua poesia breve molto nota). Le splendide prose di Nelle vene americane (In the american grain, 1925) sono un'indagine della molteplice realtà americana riscoperta nei suoi uomini rappresentativi (Eric il rosso, Franklin, Aaron Burr, Lincoln), negli eventi mitici, nei suoi drammi, dalla caccia alle streghe all'inquinamento di acqua e terra. Ultimo sviluppo di questa ricerca di un proprio concreto territorio poetico coincidente con l'america è Paterson (1946-51) poema in 5 volumi, costituito da versi e prose, documenti lettere manifesti, che con il suo potente respiro epico rappresenta il punto più alto dell'opera di Williams e uno dei modelli per la poesia americana successiva. Paterson è la città del New Jersey con la sua geografia fluviale e la sua storia coloniale, ma anche un uomo in essa e il pensiero di quest'uomo che prende corpo nel- la parola poetica. Le ultime opere furono Altre poesie (Collected later poems, 1950) e Quadri da Brueghel (Pictures from Brueghel, 1962), domi nate dalla tematica della vecchiaia come "discesa", che parados salmente si presenta come "rinnovamento" e "inizio". Partito dall'imagismo e dalla lezione del primo Pound che gli hanno insegnato il valore dell'immagine dai contorni netti e il ruolo della parola concreta, Williams è approdato alla trasformazione dell'illusione di oggettività in una tendenza a sviluppare fin dove è possibile la potenzialità della cosa, all'espressione diretta intesa come processo e alla libertà dai metri tradizionali. Ogni poesia di Williams è un caso a sé, con un proprio particolare destino. E' stato autore di romanzi come la trilogia Il mulo bianco (White mule, 1937), Nel denaro (In the money, 1940), La costru zione (The build-up, 1952); di racconti, di opere teatrali rac colte in Molti amori e altri plays (Many loves and other plays, 1961), ma la scrittura poetica è la radice della sua invenzione e la compattezza della sua intera produzione nasce dalla spinta a cancellare i generi verso quella visiona della parola come corpo e respiro testimoniata in "Paterson".
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Ultimi libri pubblicati di William C. Williams | Computational Calculus: A Numerical Companion to Elementary Calculus
 | The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
 | de Gruyter Handbook of Social Entrepreneurship
 | The Lancashire Witches
 | Friis & Seller's Epidemiology for Public Health Practice
 | More Than Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
 | The Craft of Research
 | A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion
 | Magic Bullets, Miracle Drugs, and Microbiologists: A History of the Microbiome and Metagenomics
 | Andromeda's Choice: A Novel of the Legion of the Damned: 2
 | A Return to Duty
 | Engineering Economy, Global Edition
 | New Perspectives and Paradigms in Applied Economics and Business: Select Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023
 | Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 19: General Bibliography - Revised Edition
 | The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups
 | The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors: Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups Appendices
 | Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain
 | Sociology of Mental Disorder
 | Boletes of Eastern North America
 | The Far Stars War
 | Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information: Volume I
 | The Jolly Roger: An Airman's Tale of Survival in World War II
 | The Stock Exchange from Within
 | The Father's Journal
 | Animal Stories for Aussie Kids: 22 Short Stories
 | Teaching Mathematics Using Interactive Mapping
 | Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs
 | Ecotoxicology: A Comprehensive Treatment
 | Theater in a Post-truth World: Texts, Politics, and Performance
 | Crickets 2
 | Heirs in the Ice
 | The unofficial war between russia and japan in 1939
 | Soil & Spirit: Seeds of Purpose, Nature’s Insight & the Deep Work of Transformational Change
 | Cat Stories for Aussie Kids
 | Love Lifted Me: Stories from the Childhood of a Replacement Child
 | Romeo & Juliette (in Guernesiais)
 | When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit
 | Shira
 | Adapting Macbeth: A Cultural History
 | Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions
 | Environmental Technology for Sustainability: Integrating Engineered Systems into the Built Environment
 | Emergency Vehicle Operations: A Line Officer's Guide, Third Edition
 | Manual de traumatologÃa. CirugÃa traumatológica y de cuidados intensivos
 | Ingles Para Latinos, Level 2 + Online Audio
 | African Americans in the Human Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities
 | Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: A Practical Guide
 | William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
 | Advanced Problem Solving with Maple: A First Course
 | Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations With Black American Composers
 | Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During the Civil War
 | The Confederate Jurist: The Legal Life of Judah P. Benjamin
 | Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit
 | Ingles Para Latinos, Level 1 + Online Audio
 | Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Selected Problems, and Solutions: Second Edition
 | Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth
 | Headhunter: 5-73 Cav and Their Fight for Iraq's Diyala River Valley
 | Welding Metallurgy and Weldability of Lightweight Alloys
 | Applications of Palladium in Organic Synthesis: A Mechanistic Approach
 | Holland-frei Cancer Medicine
 | Against Heresies
 | Occupational Safety and Health Law Handbook
 | Neurociencia / Neuroscience
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