William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams1883–196319th centuryBeat Generation William Carlos Williams was an American-Puerto Rican poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a context on the 'thought.'" Some of his best known poems, "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow", are reflections on the everyday. Other poems reflect the influence of the visual arts. He, in turn, influenced the visual arts; his poem "The Great Figure" inspired the painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth. Williams was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962).
Poems
150 poems- A CELEBRATION66 lines
- A GOODNIGHT56 lines
- Ad Infinitum36 lines
- AL QUE QUIERE!7 lines
- Also5 lines
- An After Song6 lines
- And I wonder how they should have been together!6 lines
- APPEAL14 lines
- APPROACH OF WINTER11 lines
- APRIL23 lines
- ARRIVAL10 lines
- Audio formats available:5 lines
- BERKET AND THE STARS8 lines
- BLIZZARD15 lines
- BLUEFLAGS34 lines
- COMPLAINT22 lines
- COMPLETE DESTRUCTION8 lines
- Con Brio16 lines
- Counter-cutting winds5 lines
- Crude Lament17 lines
- DAISY32 lines
- Dear Bill:—74 lines
- First I say this: you have seen16 lines
- First Praise12 lines
- For the simple truth is15 lines
- GREAT MULLEN23 lines
- GULLS8 lines
- HERO13 lines
- Hic Jacet12 lines
- Homage16 lines
- How can I ever be written out as men say?6 lines
- I.36 lines
- I.20 lines
- I.17 lines
- Ice-cream in the shape of flowers and domestic15 lines
- II13 lines
- II19 lines
- II44 lines
- II.4 lines
- II.55 lines
- III28 lines
- III39 lines
- III.30 lines
- III.23 lines
- Immortal8 lines
- IN HARBOR18 lines
- In time: twofour!6 lines
- IV40 lines
- IV31 lines
- IV.66 lines
- IX.52 lines
- JANUARY11 lines
- Let me indulge the American habit of quotation:33 lines
- LIGHT HEARTED WILLIAM14 lines
- LOVE SONG21 lines
- M. B.20 lines
- MARCH9 lines
- MEMORY OF APRIL6 lines
- METRIC FIGURE12 lines
- Mezzo Forte6 lines
- My dear Williams:22 lines
- Nowhere.4 lines
- October 20067 lines
- On a Proposed Trip South14 lines
- OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES21 lines
- PAGE19 lines
- PASTORAL25 lines
- Peace on Earth23 lines
- Portent22 lines
- Portrait of a Lady22 lines
- PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR58 lines
- Postlude23 lines
- PRIMROSE30 lines
- QUEEN-ANN'S-LACE21 lines
- ROMANCE MODERNE106 lines
- Section 2.15 lines
- Section 3.16 lines
- Section 4.27 lines
- Section 5.23 lines
- So much for the hearse.22 lines
- Splash the water up!10 lines
- SPOUTS14 lines
- SPRING STORM17 lines
- SUB TERRA26 lines
- The Adobe Indian hag sings her lullaby:95 lines
- THE BIRDS11 lines
- THE COLD NIGHT17 lines
- The corner of a great rain14 lines
- THE DARK DAY12 lines
- The Death of Franco of Cologne:53 lines
- THE DELICACIES41 lines
- THE DESOLATE FIELD13 lines
- THE DISPUTANTS11 lines
- The Fool's Song34 lines
- The Four Seas Press12 lines
- THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE7 lines
- THE GENTLE MAN4 lines
- THE GREAT FIGURE14 lines
- THE HUNTER7 lines
- THE LATE SINGER13 lines
- THE LONELY STREET14 lines
- THE NIGHTINGALES9 lines
- The Ordeal17 lines
- THE POOR9 lines
- THE THINKER17 lines
- The Uses of Poetry14 lines
- THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME28 lines
- The Young Housewife12 lines
- This audio reading of Danse Russe is read by75 lines
- This file should be named 19783.txt.19 lines
- THURSDAY9 lines
- TIME THE HANGMAN7 lines
- Title: Danse Russe4 lines
- TO A FRIEND6 lines
- TO A FRIEND CONCERNING SEVERAL LADIES54 lines
- To ALFRED KREYMBORG4 lines
- TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY18 lines
- To wish Myself Courage4 lines
- TRACT44 lines
- TULIP BED21 lines
- V.72 lines
- VI.39 lines
- VII.68 lines
- VIII.44 lines
- WAITING22 lines
- Why do I write today?11 lines
- WILLOW POEM14 lines
- WINTER SUNSET20 lines
- WINTER TREES10 lines
- WOMAN WALKING28 lines
- X.66 lines
- XI.29 lines
- XII.48 lines
- XIII.36 lines
- XIV.56 lines
- XIX.52 lines
- XV.59 lines
- XVI.56 lines
- XVII.46 lines
- XVIII.92 lines
- xx36 lines
- XXI.63 lines
- XXII.53 lines
- XXIII.46 lines
- XXIV.42 lines
- XXV.59 lines
- XXVI.23 lines
- XXVII.35 lines
- You sullen pig of a man4 lines
- YOUTH AND BEAUTY16 lines