Spring and All

William Carlos Williams · 1923 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Modernist

Blocks of prose arguing for the imagination against copying, their chapter numbers printed wrong on purpose, alternate with untitled verse: a road to the contagious hospital under a surge of blue mottled cloud, the pure products of America going crazy, a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Williams wrote it the year after Eliot's poem, which he said had wiped out his world like a bomb.

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• responds to ↑ The Waste Land
  T. S. Eliot · 1922 CE · Poem

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