William Carlos Williams & Wallace Stevens
This Web page has information to help researchers find materials related to the authors William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Modernism/modernity is an additional focus, so the page can be used for research on the "modern" as an independent topic. Its primary audience is students in E505B Major Authors: Williams/Stevens, but other researchers should also find it useful.
Books
Books are a key resource for literary research. Books by and about William Carlos Williams can be found in Morgan Library at call number PS 3545 .I544; there are over three shelves of books. Wallace Stevens is at PS 3537 .T4753; there are also over three shelves of books. They are located in the lower level (basement) of the building.
Locate individual works by doing a title search in SAGE, the library catalog (for works in anthologies or compilations from the past ten years and selected older titles):
"Red wheelbarrow" finds the poem in two anthologies.
Note: this search can also pick up materials about the story or poem.
Titles of interest:
The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition by Marjorie Perloff. PS3531.O82 Z7857 1985 Morgan & PS3531.O82 Z7857 1996 Morgan (different publisher)
Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry by Charles Altieri. PS310.M57 A58 1995 Morgan & PS310.M57 A58 1989 Reserve
Articles
For literature there are three indexes that provide the most sources for research on the author and his works. The indexes are MLA Bibliography, Academic Search Premier, and Humanities Index.
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Search the MLA Bibliography for articles, book chapters, etc. After finding a citation, if an article is not full text in MLA, click on the FindIt (SFX) button
See Poe for details on how to search MLA.
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see if it is available full text in another CSU electronic resource;
if it is not, check SAGE (there is a link from the FindIt (SFX) pop up
menu) to see if CSU owns the journal. For books or book chapters
check SAGE for ownership.A search for "modernity or modernism" in MLA brings up over 7500 items. A limit to journal articles drops the number to over 3600 items.
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Same software as MLA above. Some of the records are for a more general audience than MLA, and may be very useful. You can also limit your results, under "search options," to scholarly articles (this option is not found in MLA--generally speaking, everything in MLA is scholarly).
A search for "modernity" in default fields brings up over 4400 items (a limit to scholarly journals drops the number to over 3400) and "modernism" brings up over 3300 items (scholarly journals over 1800) in Academic Search Premier.
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Humanities Index. AI 3 .I495 Reference South 1974-98; online as
Humanties Abstracts 1984- .
A useful index for identifying scholarly articles.
Web
In all cases, be sure to evaluate what you find, no matter the source: book, article, Web page.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens Journal: Master Index of Articles.
Table of contents for the journal, Vol 1 Spring 1977- .
Feigning with Strange Unlike: A Wallace Stevens Site. David Lavery. Middle Tennessee State University.
Photographs, book covers, timeline, a few papers, and links to other material on the Web.
Wallace Stevens. Voices and Visions. © 1997-2007 Annenberg Media.
Information about and links to information and source material. Links to audio of the poet.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide: Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). An Ongoing Online Project © Paul P. Reuben.
Primary Works; Selected Bibliography; Study Questions.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Compiled and Prepared by Edward Brunner, John Timberman Newcomb, and Cary Nelson. Modern American Poetry. Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Links to excerpts from criticism.
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams. Poetry Exhibits, the American Academy of Poetry.
Selected bibliography. Scroll down to see links to other exhibits/essays on the Web.
William Carlos Williams. Spotlight on Voices and Visions.
Links to poems and analyses.
Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide. © Paul P. Reuben.
Primary works, selected bibliography, study questions.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). American Literature on the Web.
Links to several sites. (Opens new browser window.)Ezra Pound
Books by and about Ezra Pound can be found at call number PS 3531 .O82; there are over four shelves of books in Morgan Library. See the links listed below and much more on the Web page devoted to Pound.
Ezra Pound. Poetry Exhibits, the American Academy of Poetry.
Selected bibliography. Scroll down to see links to other exhibits/essays on the Web.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972). Poets @ internal.org
Brief biography and full texts of over 50 poems.
Selected Poetry of Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972). Representative Poetry Online. Department of English at the University of Toronto.
13 poems, notes on life and works, bibliography, some online annotations.
Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Ezra Pound (1885-1972). PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide. © Paul P. Reuben.
Primary Works, Selected Bibliography: Biographical, Critical: Books, Critical: Articles.
Additional Poems by Ezra Pound. Modern American Poetry.
A few poems, full text.
Modernism
Modernism/Modernity. Project Muse. Journal description (own site).
Table of contents.
Modernism, Modernization, Modernité, Modern: Some Definitions. Bill Kupinse. Vanderbilt University.
Definitions.
Modern. Jan. JahSonic.
Several definitions with "modern" in conjunction with other terms. Context is music.
Modernism Online Resources. Amardeep Singh. Lehigh University. December 2001.
Web links provided by named students.
The Future of Modernism in a Postmodern World. By Celena E. Kusch. Penn State News Outreach. Spring/Summer 2000.
Conference summary of Modernist Studies Association (MSA) meeting. Includes key names in the field, as well as the questions asked by them. The future of modernism was a major concern.
Modernist Critics of Note & Their Writings
Marjorie Perloff Online Works. Electronic Poetry Center.
Extensive list with links to texts. Link to extensive vita.
"The Concept of Force as Modernist Response to the Authority of Science." Charles Altieri. Modernism/Modernity 5.2 (1998) 77-93. Copyright © 1997 The Johns Hopkins University Press. CSU affiliates may access this article through ProjectMUSE.
Article about modernists.
Faculty page from University of California at Berkeley. Link to CV includes list of his publications. Manuscripts links to full text essays.
Links to lecture materials, visual materials, and recent manuscripts (by Altieri).
See also Milton, Chaucer, Poe, O'Connor, Faulkner, Pound, Woolf, Brontë Sisters and Shakespeare.
Content: Naomi Lederer