"No Wreaths Please": For William Carlos Williams
Authors: RICHARD M. RATZAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1982)

The Literature of Medicine1 December 1982"No Wreaths Please": For William Carlos WilliamsRICHARD M. RATZAN, M.D.RICHARD M. RATZAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-97-6-933 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe year 1952 was a momentous one for obstetrician-pediatrician William Carlos Williams. After 43 years of critical acceptance by his more famous peers, like Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound, he was finally beginning to receive, at 69, the public recognition he had always felt he deserved: He was being considered for the prestigious position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress (more an honor than a job) and he was soon to receive one of the nation's highest poetry awards, the Bollingen Prize. There were the sad moments as well:The Build-up, his fourth novel, was published and...References1. 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