Abstract

This article reflects on and praises Charles Bernstein’s 1983 MLA talk “The Academy in Peril: William Carlos Williams Meets the MLA” following the occasion of its fortieth anniversary. Picking up on Bernstein’s view of Williams, the article offers a reading of Spring and All, focusing on its varying uses of prose and poetry and its relation to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

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