The Tempers
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About This Book
In 1913, Williams Carlos Williams published his second book of poetry, The Tempers, through a small publishing house in London with the help of fellow modern poet, Ezra Pound. Williams was already 30 years old at the time, but this collection was just an early step in his career. A first edition copy of The Tempers, one of only 1000 printed, is preserved at the Watkinson Library in a small, royal blue box.The artifact is eye-catching not for its grandeur or style, but because it is so small. At around four and a half inches, the entire book fits in the palm of your hand. Something about its mi...
Chapters (49)
- THE TEMPERS
- THE TEMPERS
- TO CARLOS HOHEB
- CONTENTS
- Peace on Earth
- Postlude
- First Praise
- Homage
- The Fool's Song
- From "The Birth of Venus," Song
- Immortal
- Mezzo Forte
- An After Song
- Crude Lament
- The Ordeal
- The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven
- Portent
- Con Brio
- Ad Infinitum
- Translations from the Spanish, "El Romancero"
- Hic Jacet
- Contemporania
- To wish Myself Courage
- [Pg 7]
- [Pg 8]
- [Pg 9]
- [Pg 10]
- [Pg 11]
- [Pg 12]
- [Pg 13]
- [Pg 14]
- [Pg 15]
- [Pg 16]
- [Pg 17]
- [Pg 18]
- [Pg 19]
- [Pg 20]
- [Pg 21]
- [Pg 22]
- [Pg 23]
- [Pg 24]
- [Pg 25]
- [Pg 26]
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- [Pg 29]
- [Pg 30]
- [Pg 31]
- [Pg 32]
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