Facts: - death place: rutherford , new jersey , u.s. - caption: william carlos williams passport photograph ,1921 - notableworks: '' all '' ; '' paterson '' the red wheelbarrow '' ; '' spring and - influences: walt whitman , ezra pound , john keats - death date: 4 march 1963 - spouse: florence williams - influenced: robert allen ginsberg , h.h. lewis , robert lowell , rae creeley armantrout , denise levertov , charles olson , theodore roethke , - birth date: 17 september 1883 - name: william carlos williams - movement: modernism , imagism - nationality: american - image: william carlos williams passport photograph 1921.jpg - birth place: rutherford , new jersey , united states - alma mater: university of pennsylvania - occupation: writer , physician Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william carlos williams .
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william carlos williams -lrb- september 17 , 1883 -- march 4 , 1963 -rrb- was an american poet closely associated with modernism and imagism .williams is often counted as being among a group of four major american poets who were all born in a twelve-year period that began in 1874 .the group also consists of robert frost , who was born in 1874 ; wallace stevens , who was born in 1879 ; and hilda '' h.d. '' doolittle , who was born in 1886 .of these four , williams died last , several weeks after frost .-lrb- stevens was first to die , in 1955 , while h.d. lived until 1961 -rrb- .in addition to his writing , williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine .he was affiliated with what was then known as passaic general hospital in passaic , new jersey , 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 , pays tribute to williams with a memorial plaque that states '' we walk the wards that williams walked '' .