William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism

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 hus ...