Sour Grapes (book)

Sour Grapes (book)

"Sour Grapes: a book of poems" is an early work by William Carlos Williams. Published in 1921, it includes some of his best early poems: "A Widow's Lament in Springtime," "The Great Figure," "Complaint," and "Queen-Ann's-Lace."

Williams was still struggling to find his audience at the time of "Sour Grapes"' publication and was forced to pay for some, if not all, of the publishing expenses himself. As a book, it is highly indicative of Williams' early writing. It is filled out with improvisational pieces that Williams seems to have thrown together in the spare moments that he stole from his medical practice. However, this poetic improvisation produced stunningly beautiful language, which is evident in "A Widow's Lament in Springtime," and "Complaint."

Like most of Williams' early works, "Sour Grapes" was ignored by most critics at the time, but it was well received by Kenneth Burke in "The Dial" in February 1922.

External links

* [http://www.archive.org/details/sourgrapesbookof00willrich Sour grapes; a book of poems at archive.org]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Sour grapes — is an expression originating from the Aesop Fable The Fox and the Grapes, meaning to deny desire for something one cannot attain.Sour grapes may also refer to: * Sour Grapes (film), a 1998 film written and directed by Larry David * Sour Grapes… …   Wikipedia

  • The Fox and the Grapes — is a fable attributed to Aesop. The protagonist, a fox, upon failing to find a way to reach grapes hanging high up on a vine, retreated and said: The grapes are sour anyway! The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:: It is easy to despise… …   Wikipedia

  • Strawberry Shortcake — is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products. The Strawberry Shortcake properties also include a toy line of the character s friends and… …   Wikipedia

  • Cognitive dissonance — The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop. When the fox fails to reach the grapes, he decides he does not want them after all. This is an example of adaptive preference formation, which serves to reduce cognitive dissonance.[1] …   Wikipedia

  • Iranian cuisine — Persian Arts Visual Arts Painting …   Wikipedia

  • The Banana Splits — Articleissues confusing=August 2008 original research=August 2008 refimprove=August 2008Infobox Television show name = The Banana Splits Adventure Hour caption = Original title card for The Banana Splits Adventure Hour . show name 2 = The Banana… …   Wikipedia

  • Larry David — Infobox Comedian name = Larry David caption = birth name = Lawrence Eugene David birth date = birth date and age|1947|7|2 birth place = Brooklyn, New York, United States medium = stand up, television, film nationality = American active = 1975… …   Wikipedia

  • Jon Elster — (born 1940) is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory. He is also a notable proponent of Analytical Marxism, and a critic of neoclassical economics and… …   Wikipedia

  • Fable — TOCrightA fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a moral ), which may at the… …   Wikipedia

  • Aesop's Fables — or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620 ndash;560 BC), a slave and story teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop s Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”