''Sour Grapes: a book of poems'' is an early work by
William Carlos Williams. Published in
1921
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, by The Four Seas Company in Boston, the collection includes poems such as "A Widow's Lament in Springtime", "The Great Figure", "Complaint", and "Queen-Ann's-Lace".
Williams was still struggling to find his audience at the time that he published ''Sour Grapes'' and he was forced to pay for some, if not all, of the publishing expenses himself. As a book, it is highly representative of Williams's early writing. The book is filled out with improvisational pieces that Williams seems to have thrown together in the spare moments that he stole from his medical practice. However, this poetic improvisation produced remarkable language, which is evident in "A Widow's Lament in Springtime". and "Complaint".
Like most of Williams' early works, ''Sour Grapes'' was ignored by most critics at the time, but it was well received by
Kenneth Burke in ''
The Dial'' in February 1922.
External links
Page images of ''Sour grapes'' at archive.orgTranscribed full text of ''Sour grapes'' at Project Gutenberg
1921 poetry books
American poetry collections
Poetry by William Carlos Williams
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