Ebook {Epub PDF} In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams examines these questions in this collection of essays, "In the American Grain", about the first explorers and settlers who put their stamp of identity onto the national character. In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams is a collection of prose about prominent historical figures in North American history, spanning from the Vikings to Abraham Lincoln. Williams writes each essay either from the point of view of the subject or a narrator interested in the chapter’s person of interest. They take shape as historical essays, character sketches, and narrative accounts. In the American Grain. William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus's discovery of the Indies and moving on through 5/5(1).

In the American Grain Williams, William Carlos Add to Cart Buy Now Add to Wishlist. Item Price $ In the American Grain by Williams, William Carlos Seller A - Z Books Published Condition New ISBN Item Price $ Show Details. Description: New Directions, Paperback. New. 8 x cm. Add to Cart. William Carlos Williams, "The Discovery of the Indies," In the American Grain. Bright green trees, the whole land so green that it is a pleasure to look on it. Gardens of the most beautiful trees I ever saw. Later I came upon a man alone in a canoe going from one island to another. He had a little of their bread, about the size of a fist, a. Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams () was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.

William Carlos Williams' groundbreaking classic, In the American Grain, is partly a primer on American history in which he focuses on certain select individuals who had some historical influence in shaping the nation of the United States or who came to represent the country in some iconic but not necessarily accurate way. In the American Grain is not a history book but an act of discovery, in which Williams attempted to “find out for myself what the land of my more or less accidental birth might signify.”. William Carlos Williams has written a classic text, poetic and profound, of vignettes about American icons who shaped our society throughout history. This is a fever dream of impressionistic prose, cutting into the heart of each historical character, what they did, what it meant and still means. History as shimmering as a chiaroscuro.