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    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams: "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams: "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams: "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
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    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams: "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

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    William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. As well as being a poet he painted and maintained a lifelong interest in it. Williams was also a physician in both paediatrics and general medicine. He served at the Passaic General Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey as chief of paediatrics from 1924 until his death. Williams is most well-known for his poems that are closely associated with the Modernism and Imagism movements. In addition to poetry he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and worked on translations. He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement via friendships with Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). Soon his opinions moved away from theirs and his style began to confirm his alignment to a modernist expression of his surrounding environment. From the late 40’s health became a major issue in his life but with himself as the patient. He suffered a heart attack in 1948 and, after 1949, a series of strokes. One such stoke in 1953 left him in hospital for four months and brought about severe depression. In these later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets especially the American literary movements of the 1950s; the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School. One of Williams's most productive relationships was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg's letters in Paterson, stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth volume of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems in 1956. William Carlos Williams died on March 4th, 1963, at the age of 79 at his home in Rutherford. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateFeb 21, 2017
    ISBN9781787374669
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams: "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
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    William Carlos Williams

    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration to such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

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      The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams

      The Poetry of William Carlos Williams

      Volume I - Sour Grapes & The Tempers

      William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey.

      As well as being a poet he painted and maintained a lifelong interest in it.  Williams was also a physician in both paediatrics and general medicine. He served at the Passaic General Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey as chief of paediatrics from 1924 until his death.

      Williams is most well-known for his poems that are closely associated with the Modernism and Imagism movements. In addition to poetry he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and worked on translations.

      He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement via friendships with Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.).  Soon his opinions moved away from theirs and his style began to confirm his alignment to a modernist expression of his surrounding environment.

      From the late 40’s health became a major issue in his life but with himself as the patient. He suffered a heart attack in 1948 and, after 1949, a series of strokes.

      One such stoke in 1953 left him in hospital for four months and brought about severe depression.

      In these later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets especially the American literary movements of the 1950s; the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.

      One of Williams's most productive relationships was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg's letters in Paterson, stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth volume of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems in 1956.

      William Carlos Williams died on March 4th, 1963, at the age of 79 at his home in Rutherford. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

      Index of Poems

      SOUR GRAPES

      THE LATE SINGER                         

      MARCH                                    

      BERKET AND THE STARS                     

      A CELEBRATION                            

      APRIL                                    

      A GOODNIGHT                              

      OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES       

      ROMANCE MODERNE                          

      THE DESOLATE FIELD                       

      WILLOW POEM                              

      APPROACH OF WINTER                       

      JANUARY                                  

      BLIZZARD                                 

      TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY                     

      WINTER TREES                             

      COMPLAINT                                

      THE COLD NIGHT                           

      SPRING STORM                             

      THE DELICACIES                           

      THURSDAY                                 

      THE DARK DAY                          

      TIME, THE HANGMAN                       

      TO A FRIEND                              

      THE GENTLE MAN                     

      THE SOUGHING WIND              

      SPRING                                   

      PLAY                                     

      LINES                                    

      THE POOR                           

      COMPLETE DESTRUCTION                   

      MEMORY OF APRIL                          

      EPITAPH                               

      DAISY                                    

      PRIMROSE                            

      QUEEN-ANN'S-LACE           

      GREAT MULLEN                   

      WAITING                               

      THE HUNTER                        

      ARRIVAL                                

      TO A FRIEND CONCERNING SEVERAL LADIES  

      YOUTH AND BEAUTY          

      THE THINKER                       

      THE DISPUTANTS                         

      THE TULIP BED                            

      THE BIRDS                                

      THE NIGHTINGALES                       

      SPOUTS                                 

      BLUEFLAGS                           

      THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME        

      LIGHT HEARTED WILLIAM               

      PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR            

      THE LONELY STREET                       

      THE GREAT FIGURE                         

      THE TEMPERS

      PEACE ON EARTH

      POSTLUDE

      FIRST PRAISE

      HOMAGE

      THE FOOL'S SONG

      From THE BIRTH OF VENUS, Song

      IMMORTAL

      MEZZO FORTE

      AN AFTER SONG

      CRUDE LAMENT

      THE ORDEAL

      THE DEATH OF FRANCO OF COLONGE. HIS PROPHECY OF BEETHOVEN

      PORTENT

      CON BRIO

      AD INFINITUM

      TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SPANISH, EL ROMANCERO

      HIC JACET

      CONTEMPORANIA

      TO WISH MYSELF COURAGE

      WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS –

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