William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Wiliams ( New Jersey , 17 as September as 1883 – New Jersey, 4 as March as 1963 ) was an American writer linked to modernism and imagism. He is well known for his poetic work. He had a prolific career as a poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist.

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Summary

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1 Biographical synthesis
2 Artwork
- 1 Poetry
- 2 Prose
- 3 Drama
3 Sources

Biographical synthesis

He began writing poetry when he was a student at Horace Mann High School. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a doctor, in addition to writing drama and varied prose. He was a classmate of the poets Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle . He became a promoter of the literary use of colloquial speech. In 1909 he published his first collection of poems (Poems) and in 1913 Pound organized the publication in London of the second collection, The Tempers .

His influence as a poet slowly spread during the 1920s and 1930s. His work received increasing attention in the 1950s and 1960s. His major works include Kora in Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), Brueghel’s Pictures and Other Poems (1962), the five-volume epic Paterson ( 1963, 1992), and the imagination (1970).

Work

Poetry

Poems(1909).
The Tempers(1913).
Whoever Wants(1917).
Kora in Hell. Improvisations(1920).
Sour Grapes(1921).
Go Go(1923).
Spring and All(1923).
The Cod Head(1932).
Collected Poems, 1921–1931(1934).
An Early Martyr and Other Poems(1935).
Adam & Eve & The City(1936).
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).
Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia(1948).
The Collected Later Poems(1950).
Collected Earlier Poems(1951).
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).
Imaginations(1970).
Collected Poems: Volume 1, 1909–1939(1988).
Collected Poems: Volume 2, 1939–1962(1989).
Early Poems(1997).

Prose

Kora in Hell(1920).
The Great American Novel(1923).
In the American Grain(1925).
Novelette and Other Prose(1932).
Autobiography(1951).
Selected Essays(1954).
The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams(1957).
I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet(1958).
Yes, Mrs. Williams: A Personal Record of My Mother(1959).
Imaginations(1970).
The Embodiment of Knowledge(1974).
Interviews With William Carlos Williams: “Speaking Straight Ahead”(1976).
A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists(1978).
Pound / Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams(1996).
The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams(1998).
William Carlos Williams and Charles Tomlinson: A Transatlantic Connection(1998).
A Voyage to Pagany(1928).
The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories(1932).
White Mule(1937).
Life along the Passaic River(1938).
In the Money(1940).
Make Light of It: Collected Stories(1950).
The Build-Up(1952).
The Farmers’ Daughters: Collected Stories(1961).
The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams(1996).

Drama

Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams(1961).