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Discovering the Classic: Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams José María Rodríguez García The Comparatist, Volume 27, May 2003, pp. 21-40 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2003.0021 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/414764/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 10:56 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMPAKATIST DISCOVERING THE CLASSIC: SHAKESPEARE, T. S. ELIOT, AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS José María Rodríguez García William Carlos Williams has often been represented as an unscholarly and unschooled writer who did not appreciate the more intellectual tra- ditions of English verse. This is one of the reasons why he was neglected by the most important canon-makers of the twentieth century: his con- temporaries the New Critics. Williams himself was interested in culti- vating a maverick, off-center persona; for example, in the autobiographi- cal "Père Sebastian Rasles" (included in In the American Grain [1925]), he recalls an interview in Paris with the French man of letters, Valéry Larbaud: "Who is this man Larbaud who has so little pride that he wishes to talk to me? [. . .] He is a student, I am a block, I thought. I could see it at once: he knows far
The Comparatist – University of North Carolina Press
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