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10.31. Business? Correction, it is WCW who was from NJ. Stevens is from Hartford, Conn. William Carlos Williams Reinvigorating Language and the Imagination HW Finish reading Williams Responses Thurs. Papers Fri. William Carlos Williams (1883-1863).

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10.31

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  1. 10.31 • Business? • Correction, it is WCW who was from NJ. Stevens is from Hartford, Conn. • William Carlos Williams • Reinvigorating Language and the Imagination • HW • Finish reading Williams • Responses Thurs. • Papers Fri.

  2. William Carlos Williams (1883-1863) • Made friends with Pound and H.D. while in college • Finished an M.D., became a practicing doctor in Rutherford, NJ • Friends with most of the foremost avant-gardists of the time, Pound & the Imagists, Duchamp, Francis Picabia, etc. though is patients hardly knew he was a writer. • At one time associated with Imagists. He and Pound left the movement behind, but took separate directions. One can find in Spring and All some responses to the direction Pound took following Imagism. • Generally wrote at night or in between seeing patients.

  3. “I do not like your poems” • What problem does WCW think people will have with his poems? • How does he interpret their reaction? • “There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world” 132

  4. “To the imagination” • What is so important about the imagination for WCW? • Why does the imagination need addressing? • “There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world” 132 • “layers of demoded words and shapes. Demoded…through laziness or changes in the form of existence which have let the words empty” 134 • How? – “The rose is obsolete” • Put WCW in conversation with others we have read. • Emerson? • Pound? • Stevens?

  5. How will he accomplish this? • How will art save the imagination? • Not a question of the “beautiful illusion” or “copy of nature” • Expansion. 136 • Limits. 135 • Relationship to reality. 134 Imagination is key to our accessing the fullness of reality.

  6. To the poetry… • By the road to the contagious hospital • What is going on? • What is said? • How is it said? • How does this compare with what we read? • Stevens? • Imagism? • How does what this says and how it is said relate to his conversation about the imagination?

  7. HW • Finish Williams. • Ponder over, what else, “Red Wheelbarrow”. • Responses for Thurs. • Papers for Fri.

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