This book examines the achievements of William Carlos Williams in the context of the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thorgau and Walt Whitman. The author develops a narrative of sensibilities to enrich the understanding of transcendentalism.Emerson: facing the ignoble world; Thoreau: a purely sensuous heaven; Whitman: a new distribution of roles; marriage out of despair: the Stetcher trilogy; caught half of the earth in ecstasy: the poems; the art of domestic husbandry: Paterson.
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