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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land (1922).
William Carlos Williams was born the first of two sons of an English father and a Puerto Rican mother of French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish ancestry, and he grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He was a medical doctor, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a prolific American poet, so picking just ten of his best poems by way of introduction to his work is always going to be a difficult task. However, below we introduce ten of Williams’s best-known and, we believe, best poems, which shine a light on his range, his themes, and his distinctive style.
William Carlos Williams (born September 17, 1883, Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.—died March 4, 1963, Rutherford) was an American poet who succeeded in making the ordinary appear extraordinary through the clarity and discreteness of his imagery.
Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.
William Carlos Williams was a late 19th-century to 20th-century prominent figure in American poetry. Williams was a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and medical professional who had a great influence on some of the talented younger poets who came after.
Few American poets of the past century have enjoyed as much critical and popular acclaim as William Carlos Williams. He is one of his generation’s most widely read and anthologized poets and one of the most innovative and influential. His energetic, modernist poems still feel bold and experimental.
William Carlos Williams was committed to the creation of a distinct American style of poetry, and over the course of his career his work became increasingly focused on an innovative approach to structure and measure.
Home - William Carlos Williams. Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a town near the city of Paterson, Williams made the city his home for most of his life. He would mix cosmopolitan experience with a commitment to local American life and would maintain a remarkable dual career.
Williams (1883-1963) was born in New Jersey and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. Revered for his modernist and imagist poetry, he published numerous poetry collections, including the five-volume epic Paterson and Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems.
