%0 Journal Article
%T William Carlos Williams and Carlos Drummond de Andrade: A Poetics of Generosity
%A Valente
%A Luiz Fernando
%J Ellipsis
%D 2005
%I American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA)
%X This essay brings together American poet William Carlos Williams and Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade as practitioners of a ˇ°poetics of generosity,ˇ± defined as a combination of the authors' humanistic engagement with certain key themes inherent in the Judeo-Christian tradition and preference for a simple, unrhetorical poetic diction.
%K Carlos Drummond de Andrade
%K William Carlos Williams
%K Brazilian poetry
%K poetics of generosity
%U http://www.ellipsis-apsa.com/Volume_3-Valente_files/Valente_ellipsis_3_2005.pdf