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" The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned Memory is a kind of accomplishment a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new kinds — since their movements are towards... "
The Last Passage: Recovering a Death of Our Own - Page 99
by Donald Heinz - 1998 - 320 pages
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Pictures from Brueghel: And Other Poems

William Carlos Williams - 1962 - 196 pages
...kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new...abandoned). No defeat is made up entirely of defeat— since die world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected, beckons...
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American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

Richard Gray - 1976 - 292 pages
...kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new...objectives (even though formerly they were abandoned). 5 No defeat is made up entirely of defeat — since the world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected....
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William Carlos Williams: The Critical Heritage

Charles Doyle - 1997 - 466 pages
...sickness, age, and imminent death, while the poems carry out the theme announced on the first page: No defeat is made up entirely of defeat - since the...world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. The poems move to create such a place, where, as in the poem of affection for his daughters-in-law...
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Selected Poems

William Carlos Williams - 1985 - 324 pages
...kind of accomplishment a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new kinds — since their movements are towards new objectives (even though formerly they were abandoned) No defeat is made up entirely of...
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High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy

Henry S. Sussman - 1989 - 273 pages
...kind of accomplishment a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new kinds— since their movements are towards new objectives (even though formerly they were abandoned) (P, 77-78) The apparently unproblematical...
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Refiguring America: A Study of William Carlos Williams' In the American Grain

Bryce Conrad - 1990 - 196 pages
...kind of accomplishment a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new...up entirely of defeat — since the world it opens up is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places...
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Paterson

William Carlos Williams - 1992 - 342 pages
...kind of accomplishment a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new kinds — since their movements are towards new objectives (even though formerly they were abandoned) No defeat is made up entirely of...
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Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry

Laurence Goldstein, Robert Chrisman - 2001 - 360 pages
...dialectical reversal, to make use of dislocation much the way Williams made use of failure in "The Descent": No defeat is made up entirely of defeat — since...world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. The last sentence of the "Elegies," and the stanza, completes itself by saying, "I knew myself [to...
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Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new...defeat — since the world it opens is always a place THE CYCLES formerly OF LIFE unsuspected. A 206 | world lost, a world unsuspected, beckons to new places...
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