num_pages: 267
description: In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'. Marked by a vernacular American speech and direct observation of the landscape and people of his native New Jersey, his poetry explores the 'raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor. Emotionally restrained but rich in sensory experience, the poems were written according to the guiding concept: 'no ideas but in things' and those 'things', a red wheelbarrow, a group of trees, a river, convey the local and the particular with a vivid intensity.
language: English
title: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Poems
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, 19th Century, Romanticism, Classics, Unfinished, British Literature, American, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 17258
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Gardners Books