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FDU PRESS
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| Scholarly Review |
 | The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912
ISBN# 9780838641484
Reviewed by: G. Grieve-Carlson, Lebanon Valley College
Choice, October 2009 |
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Williams (1883-1963) was a prolific and provocative letter writer, and in addition to his Selected Letters, ed. by John Thirwall, the literature includes collections of his correspondence with Theodore Roethke, Marcia Nardi, James Laughlin, Denise Levertov, and Louis Zukofsky (several of these volumes have been reviewed in these pages). The present meticulously edited and annotated volume includes 200 of the 310 extant letters that Williams wrote to his brother Edgar (and 25 of Edgar's to William) during his four years at the university of Pennsylvania Medical School, his medical internships in Manhattan, his years in Europe, and the beginning of his medical practice in New Jersey. Williams's Unitarian faith is evident ("I put all my trust in God"), as is the fact that his ambition lay with drama rather than poetry ("the drama is the aim in life").
Recommended. Extensive graduate and research collections.
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