Poetry and Consciousness

Poetry and Consciousness brings together prose reflections by noted poet and critic C. K. Williams, including meditations on psychology, an epistemology of poems, and considerations of poetry and its relations both to history and to the novel. An autobiographical essay reveals the influences that helped spur and shape the development of Williams's poetic aesthetic. Other essays cast a critical eye on the work of poets Harry Heine, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Miklos Radnoti, and Paul Zweig.