William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet and a medical doctor. His mother was born in Puerto Rico.[1] His father was raised in the Dominican Republic.[2][1]
William Carlos Williams | |
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.jpg) Williams in 1921 | |
| Born | September 17, 1883 Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | March 4, 1963 (aged 79) Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, physician |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Literary movement | Modernism, Imagism |
| Notable works | "This Is Just to Say" "The Red Wheelbarrow" "The Great Figure" Paterson Spring and All |
| Spouse | Florence Herman (m. 1912) |
Williams' autobiography was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1952.[3] In 1963 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel.[4] He also wrote short stories and novels. He was a major writer of modernist literature. He was friends with other important American poets such as Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg.[5]
Some of his famous books are Kora in Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962), and the epic poem Paterson (1963, 1992).
Books
- Poems (1909)
- The Tempers (1913)
- Al Que Quiere! (1917)
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations (1920)
- Sour Grapes (1921)
- Spring and All (1923)
- In the American Grain (1925)
- The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories (1932)
- Collected Poems, 1921–1931 (1934)
- An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935)
- Adam & Eve & The City (1936)
- White Mule (1937)
- The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906–1938 (1938)
- The Broken Span (1941)
- The Wedge (1944)
- Paterson Book I (1946); Book II (1948); Book III (1949); Book IV (1951); Book V (1958)
- The Collected Later Poems (1950; rev. ed.1963)
- The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951)
- The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957)
- The Farmers' Daughters: Collected Stories (1961)
- Collected Earlier Poems (1951; rev. ed., 1966)
- The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954)
- Journey to Love (1955)
- Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962)
- Paterson (Books I–V in one volume), (1963)
William Carlos Williams Media
"The rose fades, and is renewed again ...."
I saw the figure 5 in gold.*Charles Demuth, 1928.The Great FigureAmong the rain*and lights*I saw the figure 5*in gold*on a red*firetruck*moving*tense*unheeded*to gong clangs*siren howls*and wheels rumbling*through the dark city. William Carlos Williams 1920.
This Is Just To Say (wall poem in The Hague)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mariani, Paul L. (1990). William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. pp. 2. ISBN 0-393-30672-0.
- ↑ "Pennsylvania Center for the Book". pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
- ↑ "The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
- ↑ "Poetry". The Pultizer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ↑ Poets, Academy of American. "About William Carlos Williams | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
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