WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. Typed letter signed ("Bill") to the poet and critic Charles Olson, Rutherford, N.J., 20 April 1948. 2 pages, 4to, both sides of his imprinted letterhead, single-spaced, with envelope address in holograph by Williams; half morocco slipcase. WILLIAMS LAMBASTS T.S. ELIOT, PRAISES FORD MADOX FORD "... Dear Ol' Possum [Eliot], as Ez [Ezra Pound] calls him. He has chosen to oppose, by ignoring me from first to last. It is his privilege but I'm going to make him pay for it, plenty before I get through ... From the first, at the appearance of Waste Land , I had an instinctive revulsion from everything that was implied by the man's writing ... it was close to a disaster to our writing as it was beginning to manifest itself in those years ... As I say my first revulsion which even I put down largely to jealousy on my part was instinctive. But just recently I have begun to see clearly how correct my sense of the underlying shoddiness of the Waste Land was and is ... Yes, remember old [Ford Madox] Ford? He was a sweet man, a curiously ineffective one in some ways but it was just that that endeared him to those who loved him. And his novels are about the best that were written during his lifetime. They take my breath away with their sheer virtuosity. Certainly one or two of the[m] should be required reading for any young novelist..."
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. Typed letter signed ("Bill") to the poet and critic Charles Olson, Rutherford, N.J., 20 April 1948. 2 pages, 4to, both sides of his imprinted letterhead, single-spaced, with envelope address in holograph by Williams; half morocco slipcase. WILLIAMS LAMBASTS T.S. ELIOT, PRAISES FORD MADOX FORD "... Dear Ol' Possum [Eliot], as Ez [Ezra Pound] calls him. He has chosen to oppose, by ignoring me from first to last. It is his privilege but I'm going to make him pay for it, plenty before I get through ... From the first, at the appearance of Waste Land , I had an instinctive revulsion from everything that was implied by the man's writing ... it was close to a disaster to our writing as it was beginning to manifest itself in those years ... As I say my first revulsion which even I put down largely to jealousy on my part was instinctive. But just recently I have begun to see clearly how correct my sense of the underlying shoddiness of the Waste Land was and is ... Yes, remember old [Ford Madox] Ford? He was a sweet man, a curiously ineffective one in some ways but it was just that that endeared him to those who loved him. And his novels are about the best that were written during his lifetime. They take my breath away with their sheer virtuosity. Certainly one or two of the[m] should be required reading for any young novelist..."
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