Who is William Carlos Williams?

  • (noun): United States poet (1883-1963).
    Synonyms: Williams

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician" but excelled at both.

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William Carlos Williams - Further Reading
... “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You” The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams ... By Herbert Leibowitz ...
The Dial - Notable Contributors By Volume
... Maddox Ford, Henry McBride, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats Vol ... Ezra Pound, Logan Pearsall Smith, Arthur Schnitzler, Max Weber, William Butler Yeats Vol ... Paul Rosenfeld, Arthur Schnitzler, Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, William Butler Yeats Vol ...
20th Century In Literature - Interwar Period
... Cummings (USA) Futility by William Gerhardie (Russia, England) The Beautiful and Damned by F ... Hay by Aldous Huxley Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos (USA) The Great American Novel by William Carlos Williams The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet (Fra ... Transfer by John Dos Passos In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams The Desert of Love by François Mauriac (France) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (USA ...
Eli Siegel - Works - Comments On Siegel's Work
... William Carlos Williams was an early supporter of Siegel's poetry and defender of his views ... Williams wrote And Williams continued Eli Siegel's work, which in time became Aesthetic Realism, was the cause of some of the largest praise, the largest love in persons, and also the largest ... are writing about a contemporary who is great who all his life met what William Carlos Williams described him as meeting, `the extreme resentment that a ...
Journey To Love (William Carlos Williams)
... was a 1955 Random House book by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams ... Other Poems (1954), in the New Directions paperback Pictures from Brueghel and other poems by William Carlos Williams Collected Poems 1950-1962 ...

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    Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated—thrown aside—a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    just like you sitting
    there they come and talk to me, just the same.

    They come to bother us. Why? I said I don’t
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    Jealous, do you think? I don’t know.
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter
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    Their time past, pulled down
    cracked and flung to the fire
    Mgo up in a roar

    All recognition lost, burnt clean
    clean in the flame, the green
    dispersed,
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)