Title: The autobiography of William Carlos Williams
First published: 1967
Description: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). At the same time as maintaining a popular medical practice, he became a prolific poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. Experimenting with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh and singularly American poetics, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Poets, American, Physicians, Williams, william carlos, 1883-1963, Poets, biography, Pediatrics, History
Places: New Jersey
People: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3545.I544 Z5 1968