“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 4 - William Carlos Williams Contents

Notes - Section 4 - William Carlos Williams

1 Williams, The Autobiography, p. 264. Webster Schott, ed., Imaginations, pp. 231-233, 269-271.

2 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 5 March 1928, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 7-8, No. 4.

3 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 20 March 1928, Yale. See Zukofsky’s essay on Williams, “The Best Human Value,” Nation, 186, 22 (31 May 1958), 500-502; in Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky, expanded edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), p. 46.

4 Williams, Selected Letters, ed. John C. Thirlwall (New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957), p. 93. Williams’ dependence in isolation on his friends was restated by Zukofsky in “American Poetry 1920-1930,” Symposium, 2, 1 (January 1931), 80; Prepositions, p. 148; see section 12.

5 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 28 March 1928, The Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo. The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky, ed. Barry Ahearn. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), pp. 3-4.

6 Williams, The Autobiography, p. 264. See also Selected Letters, p. 93.

7 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 12 August 1928, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

8 Mike Weaver, William Carlos Williams: The American Background (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), p. 1.

9 Williams, The Autobiography, p. 235.

10 Williams, “Foreword,” The Autobiography, p. [iii].

11 Emily Mitchell Wallace, A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968), p. 27.

12 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 17 May 1928, Yale and Buffalo. The Correspondence, pp. 8-9.

13 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 25 June 1928, Yale and Buffalo. The Correspondence, p. 10.

14 Williams, Letter to Zukofsky, 2 April 1928, Selected Letters, p. 94, No. 66. The Correspondence, pp. 4-5.

15 Louis Zukofsky, “A” (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), p. 1.

16 “A Commemorative Evening for Louis Zukofsky,” American Poetry Review Supplement, 9, 1 (January/February 1980), 25.

17 Zukofsky’s introduction to “A”-l-12 (Kyoto: Origin Press, 1959); reprinted on inside back leaf of “A”.

18 “A”, p. 4. A Voyage to Pagany (1928; rpt. st. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1972), p. 238.

19 “A”, p. 1; A Voyage, p. 237.

20 Williams, Letter of Zukofsky, 8 April 1928, Selected Letters, pp. 95-96, No. 68.

21 Williams, Selected Letters, p. 96, No. 69.

22 Exile, 4 (Autumn 1928), 30-68. This version was reprinted in Imaginations, ed. Webster Schott (New York: New Directions, 1971), pp. 234-265. Zukofsky edited a much shorter version without the prose for Collected Poems 1921-1931 (New York: The Objectivist Press, 1934) pp. 109-118. A third version, longer than the second but yet without the prose, is in The Collected Earlier Poems (New York: New Directions, 1969), pp. 62-74.

23 Wallace, A Bibliography of Wiiliam Carlos Williams, p. 183.

24 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 28 May 1928, Yale.

25 Williams, Selected Letters (New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957). pp- 100-101, No. 72.

26 Pound, Letter to Zukofsky, 1 July 1928, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

27 Webster Schott, ed. Imaginations, p. 231.

28 “9/27,” Imaginations, p. 234; Exile 4, p. 30.

29 “9/30,” Imaginations, p. 236; Exile 4, p. 30.

30 Imaginations, p. 239; Selected Essays, p. 62; Exile 4, pp. 35-36.

31 Imaginations, p. 239; Selected Essays, p. 62; Exile 4, p. 36.

32 Imaginations, p. 239; Selected Essays, p. 63; Exile 4, p. 36.

33 Imaginations, p. 241; Selected Essays, p. 64; Exile 4, pp. 38-39.

34 Imaginations, p. 243; Selected Essays, p. 64-67; Exile 4, p. 42.

35 “11/11,” Imaginations, p. 258; Exile 4, p. 59.

36 Imaginations, p. 247; Exile 4, p. 46.

37 “11/1: Introduction,” Imaginations, pp. 247-248; Exile 4, pp. 46-47.

38 “11/2” and “11/6,” Imaginations, pp. 249-252; Exile 4, pp. 48-52.

39 John Keats, Selected Poems and Letters, ed. Douglas Bush (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), pp. 258-259.

40 Imaginations, p. 253; Exile 4, p. 53.

41 Imaginations, pp. 258-259; Exile 4, pp. 60-61.

42 Imaginations, p. 259; Exile 4, p. 62.

43 Imaginations, p. 260; Exile 4, p. 62.

44 Imaginations, p. 259; Selected Essays, p. 71; Exile 4, p. 61.

45 Imaginations, p. 261; Selected Essays, p. 71; Exile 4, p. 63.

46 Imaginations, pp. 261-262; Selected Essays, pp. 71-72; Exile 4, p. 64. Compare Rakosi’s statement in Section 2.

47 Imaginations, p. 262; Selected Essays, p. 72; Exile 4, pp. 64-65.