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William Carlos Williams (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
William Carlos Williams was a major American modernist poet to whom recognition came late in his career, and who influenced many subsequent poets in their search for a contemporary voice and form. Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, on September 17, 1883, to a mother born in Puerto Rico and an English father. Both parents figure in a number of Williams’s poems. In 1902 Williams began the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and while a student formed important friendships with Ezra Pound and the painter Charles Demuth. In 1910 Williams began his forty-year...
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Pictures from Brueghel (Magill Book Reviews) -
Poetry of Williams (William Carlos), The (Masterplots Classics) -
Pound/Williams (Literary Annual Reviews) -
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Spring and All (Poetry) -
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Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
