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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... Journey to Love was a 1955 Random House book by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams ... New Directions paperback Pictures from Brueghel and other poems by William Carlos Williams Collected Poems 1950-1962 ...
... Cummings (USA) Futility by William Gerhardie (Russia, England) The Beautiful and Damned by F ... Antic 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 ... disparue by Marcel Proust Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos In the American Grain by William Carlos Williams The Desert of Love by François Mauriac (France ...
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... 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 ... about Eli Siegel, you 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 fixed, sclerotic mind feels confronting ...
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“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“The source of poetry that
seeing the clock stopped, says,
The clock has stopped
that ticked yesterday so well?”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“He doesn’t know a damn thing about China ... That’s what makes him an expert. He knows nothing about music, being tone deaf. That’s what makes him a musician ... And he’s batty in the head. That’s what makes him a philosopher.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)