By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘This Is Just to Say’, a 1934 poem written by the American modernist poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), offers itself to the reader as a note left by the poet to his wife. Is this all ‘This Is Just to Say’ is: a note […]
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The Best William Carlos Williams Poems Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a prolific American poet, so picking just ten of his best poems by way of introduction to his work is always going to be a difficult task. However, below we introduce ten of Williams’s best-known and, we believe, best […]
A Short Analysis of William Carlos Williams’ ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’
A critical reading of a classic short poem It may be just sixteen words long, and consist of eight short lines, but ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ by William Carlos Williams has generated more commentary than many longer twentieth-century poems. In this post we offer a short analysis of Williams’ poem, which […]