Voted by <em>The New York Times</em> as one of the greatest poems of the twentiethcentury, <em>Spring and All</em> is a manifesto of the imagination &mdash; a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that crystallizes in dramatic, energetic, andbeautifully cryptic statements of how language recreates the world. <em>Spring andAll</em> contains some of Williams&rsquo;s best known poetry, including Section I whichopens, &ldquo;By the road to the contagious hospital&rdquo; (now commonly known by thetitle &ldquo;Spring and All&rdquo;), and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famouspoem, &ldquo;The Red Wheelbarrow.&rdquo; <br /><br />Although <em>Spring and All</em> has been always available in collected works suchas <em>Imaginations</em> and <em>Collected Poems: Volume I</em>, this Pearl edition makes it shineas the separate book that William Carlos Williams intended.