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William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to writing, Williams was a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. The hospital, which is now known as St. Mary's General Hospital, paid tribute to Williams with a memorial plaque that states "We walk the wards that Williams walked". Life and career Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. His father, William George Williams, was born in England but raised from "a very young age" in the Dominican Republic; his mother, Raquel Hélène Hoheb, from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, was of French extraction.Scholars note that the Caribbean culture of the family home had an important influence on Williams. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera observes, "English was not his primary means of communication until he was a teenager. At home his mother and father—who were raised in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, respectively—spoke Spanish with each other and to young William Carlos." While he wrote in English, "the poet's first language" was Spanish and his "consciousness and social orientation" were shaped by Caribbean customs; his life influenced "to a very important degree by a plural cultural foundation."Williams received his primary and secondary education in Rutherford until 1897 when he was sent for two years to a school near Geneva and to the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He attended the Horace Mann School upon his return to New York City and, having passed a special examination, was admitted in 1902 to the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1906. Upon leaving Penn, Williams did internships at both French Hospital and Child's Hospital in New York, then went to Leipzig for advanced study of pediatrics. He published his first book, Poems, in 1909. Williams married Florence ("Flossie") Herman (1891–1976) in 1912 after he returned from Germany. They moved into a house on 9 Ridge Road in Rutherford, New Jersey, where they resided for many years. Shortly afterward, his second book of poems, The Tempers, was published by a London press through the help of his friend Ezra Pound, whom he had met while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Around 1914, Williams and his wife had their first son, William E. Williams, followed by their second son, Paul H. Williams, in 1917. Their first son also became a physician.Although his primary occupation was as a family doctor, Williams had a successful literary career as a poet. His work has a great affinity with painting, in which he had a lifelong interest. In addition to poetry (his main literary focus), he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and translations. He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement through his friendships with Pound and H.D. (whom he had befriended during his medical studies at Penn), but soon he began to develop opinions that differed from theirs and his style changed to express his commitment to a modernist expression of his immediate environment. In 1920, Williams was sharply criticized by many of his peers (including H.D., Pound and Wallace Stevens) when he published one of his more experimental books Kora in Hell: Improvisations. Pound called the work "incoherent" and H.D. thought the book was "flippant". The Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa criticized Williams's sexual and artistic politics in her experimental prose poem review titled "Thee I call 'Hamlet of Wedding Ring'", published in The Little Review in March 1921. Williams had an affair with the Baroness, and published three poems in Contact, describing the forty-year-old as "an old lady" with "broken teeth [and] syphilis".Three years later, in 1923, Williams published Spring and All, one of his seminal books of poetry, which contained the classic poems "By the road to the contagious hospital", "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To Elsie". However, in 1922, the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land had become a literary sensation that overshadowed Williams's very different brand of poetic modernism. In his Autobiography, Williams later wrote of "the great catastrophe to our letters—the appearance of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land." He said, I felt at once that The Waste Land had set me back twenty years and I'm sure it did. Critically, Eliot returned us to the classroom just at the moment when I felt we were on a point to escape to matters much closer to the essence of a new art form itself—rooted in the locality which should give it fruit. Although he respected the work of Eliot, Williams became openly critical of Eliot's highly intellectual style with its frequent use of foreign languages and allusions to classical and European literature. Instead, Williams preferred colloquial American English.During the 1930s, Williams began working on an opera. Titled The First President, it was focused on George Washington and his influence on the history of the United States of America and was intended to "galvanize us into a realization of what we are today." In his modernist epic collage of place titled Paterson (published between 1946 and 1958), an account of the history, people, and essence of Paterson, New Jersey, Williams wrote his own modern epic poem, focusing on "the local" on a wider scale than he had previously attempted. He also examined the role of the poet in American society and famously summarized his poetic method in the phrase "No ideas but in things" (found in his poem "A Sort of a Song" and repeated again and again in Paterson). In his later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets. He had a significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s, including the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.One of Williams's more dynamic relationships as a mentor was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg's letters in Paterson, stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth section of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg's first book, Howl and Other Poems in 1956. Williams suffered a heart attack in 1948, and after 1949, a series of strokes. Severe depression after one such stroke caused him to be confined to Hillside Hospital, New York, for four months in 1953. He died on March 4, 1963, at age 79 at his home in Rutherford. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Poetry The poet and critic Randall Jarrell stated of Williams's poetry, William Carlos Williams is as magically observant and mimetic as a good novelist. He reproduces the details of what he sees with surprising freshness, clarity, and economy; and he sees just as ex.... Discover the William Carlos Williams popular books. Find the top 100 most popular William Carlos Williams books.
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La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams
Marta Aponte AlsinaLa muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams es una novela sobre la enigmática Raquel Helena Hoheb, tal vez una de las pintoras más importantes del siglo XIX latinoamericano y m...
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The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy
John BrehmOver 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare.The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy received the Spirituality & Practice Book A...
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The Poetry of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos WilliamsWilliam Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. As well as being a poet he painted and maintained a lifelong interest in it. Williams was also a...
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Eat This Poem
Nicole GulottaA literary cookbook that celebrates food and poetry, two of life's essential ingredients.In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seaso...
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Wallace StevensAn essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet." Originally pu...
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Juego, luego existo
Ezequiel Fernández MooresCuatro décadas deporte local y mundial narrados y analizados por el periodista más respetado y prestigioso.A 10.000 kilómetros de distancia de Madrid, donde resido, un periodista ...
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The Quotable Book Lover
Ben Jacobs, Helena Hjalmarsson & Nicholas A. Basbanes"Some books are unreservedly forgotten; none are unreservedly remembered."W. H. Auden"A room without books is like a body without a soul."Cicero"The proper study of mankind is book...
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William Carlos Williams
Paul MarianiWilliam Carlos Williams (1883–1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Paterson, Williams's epic masterpiec...
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Insel
Mina Loy, Elizabeth Arnold & Sarah Hayden“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no ...
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Handing One Another Along
Robert Coles, Trevor Hall & Vicki KennedyIn this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostere...
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The Wilds of Poetry
David HintonAn exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avantgarde poets a thril...
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William Carlos Williams
Crane DoyleThis set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by th...
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Art on Art on Art. Parallels in poems by William Carlos Williams and visual arts
Stephanie PeikerModernist poetry, which emerged in the first two decades of the 20th century had the main aim to eliminate rigid structures of romantic poetry. The images and objects put into word...
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The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
Wendell BerryA “superb study” that “reminds us that Williams remains our contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative o...
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Black Mountain Poems
Jonathan C. CreasyAn essential selection of one of the most important twentiethcentury creative movements Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dan...
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The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos WilliamsThe Autobiography is an unpretentious book; it reads much as Williams talkedspontaneously and often with a special kind of salty humor. But it is a very human story, glowing with w...
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Depression Glass
Monique VesciaFirst Published in 2006. This is part of the literary critcism and cutlural theory collection. Situated within the larger narrative of the symbiosis between photography and modern...
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Poems in the Manner Of
David LehmanPoems in the Manner Of is an illuminating journey through centuries of writers who continue to influence new work today, including that of respected poet and series editor of The B...
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Poetologische Implikationen in der minimalistischen Lyrik Ezra Pounds und William Carlos Williams
Julia Deitermann„Make it new”, so lautet das zentrale Motto der 1910 in London entstandenen und anschließend nach Amerika ausgewanderten Bewegung des Imagismus, das sogleich die Zielsetzung seiner...
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Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Bram DijkstraPrevious studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during t...
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Poetry 101
Susan DalzellBecome a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civi...
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The Whole Harmonium
Paul MarianiAn “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of ...
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Paterson de William Carlos Williams
Encyclopaedia UniversalisBienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisAyant écrit pendant vingt ans dans l’ombre de son ami et compatriote Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams (18831963) ...
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Art on Art on Art. Parallels in poems by William Carlos Williams and visual arts
Stephanie PeikerSeminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Moder...
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The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams
Christopher MacGowanThis Companion contains thirteen new essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works including Paterson, In the Ame...
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A River of Words
Jen Bryant2009 Caldecott Honor BookAn ALA Notable BookA New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s BookA Charlotte Zolotow Honor BookNCTE Notable Children’s Book When he wrote poems, he felt...
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Seeking the Cure
Ira RutkowA timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accou...
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16 Words
Lisa Rogers & Chuck GroeninkThis simple nonfiction picture book about the beloved American poet William Carlos Williams is also about how being mindful can result in the creation of a great poem like "The Red...