Titlebook: William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism; Fitting the Crab in Ron Callan Book 1992 Ron Callan 1992 art.poem.understanding

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Emerson: Facing the Ignoble World,th a wave of her hand, . . It is a view shared by Williams when he criticises Emerson for rising superior ‘into a world of thought’ (SE 155). However, this, as indeed Williams recognises, is hardly a full account of Transcendentalism and it is, I will argue, the focus on the world at hand which give

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Thoreau: A Purely Sensuous Heaven,nd the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form’. Thought’ is maintained as an elemental quality in the process of original expression. It is here that Emerson seeks to locate the progress of American Literature. And yet ‘Experience’ reveals t

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Marriage out of Despair: The Stecher Trilogy,as we have seen, this sense of free association which is the source of much of Williams’s criticism. But the Transcendental legacy, most apparent through Whitman, is that in the activity of relating lies a foundation capable of sustaining a vast, and, at times, apparently anarchical vision. Within t

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Caught Half Off the Earth in Ecstasy: The Poems,. To impose a sense of open marriage on the relationship of Gurlie and Joe would be to indicate a prejudice for the ‘idea’ and so ignore the accumulation of facts which had detailed the protagonists’ lives. The drama of the Trilogy is that of the shifting terms in a hierarchy in which the balance of

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The Art of Domestic Husbandry: ,he activity of relating. To locate a closure which favours either extreme, or to present an overarching ideal which smothers extremes is, in his aesthetic, to achieve only sterility in which ‘the paralytic is confirmed / in his paralysis’ (CP2 263). Seeking neither to rape nor seduce, fertile interc

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Emerson: Facing the Ignoble World,Understanding, motivates this ‘school’ to engage mundane subjects as Emerson would be distracted by ‘puss’ in his crisis essay ‘Experience’ or Thoreau would be fascinated by a piece of rotten wood in . or that a ‘spear of summer grass’ would become what one critic terms a ‘constitutive metaphor’ for Whitman’s epic ..

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Caught Half Off the Earth in Ecstasy: The Poems,ent of each other’s identity: ‘[t]hey walked apart’, which tentatively evokes the attainment of such fellowship and love (BU 3). These novels indicate not alone Williams’s faith that blossoming is the effect of balanced relationships but also his understanding of one’s self as a complex and, therefore, potentially flexible being.