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By T. Hugh Crawford. 195 pp., illustrated. Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. $27.95. ISBN 0-8061-2550-0.

In recent decades William Carlos Williams, physician-poet, has straddled disciplines in university settings. Literature students compare his Pulitzer Prize-winning works with writings by his modernist colleagues Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. Medical students, on the other side of campus, typically focus on Williams's medical themes, compiled by Robert Coles in The Doctor Stories/William Carlos Williams (New York: New Directions, 1984). Both sets of readers find a voice struggling to articulate cultural upheaval, to portray the "new world naked."

In Modernism, Medicine, and Williams, T. Hugh Crawford suggests that Williams's training as a scientist emphasized the modern concepts of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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