Spring and All - Williams, William Carlos
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First published in 1923, "Spring and All" is the groundbreaking volume of poetry by the modernist and imagist American poet William Carlos Williams. Williams, born in New Jersey in 1883, worked as a doctor for most of his life while spending his free time writing plays, short stories, novels, essays, and poetry. Containing some of Williams's best-known poetry, the volume alternates between prose and free verse. Williams's prose has been described as cryptic, dramatic, and full of energy. Greatly influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", which was published in 1922, Williams sought to…mehr

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First published in 1923, "Spring and All" is the groundbreaking volume of poetry by the modernist and imagist American poet William Carlos Williams. Williams, born in New Jersey in 1883, worked as a doctor for most of his life while spending his free time writing plays, short stories, novels, essays, and poetry. Containing some of Williams's best-known poetry, the volume alternates between prose and free verse. Williams's prose has been described as cryptic, dramatic, and full of energy. Greatly influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", which was published in 1922, Williams sought to recreate the world through language, rather than merely describe it. This desire and Eliot's influence are evident in his beautiful and evocative poems. Two of Williams's most famous poems can be found in this volume, numbered in the book as I and XXII, these poems are known more commonly as "Spring and All" and "The Red Wheelbarrow" respectively. While "Spring and All" received little attention during Williams's lifetime, it was reprinted after his death and continues to be viewed as an important and significant work of American literature, being named by the Library of Congress in 2012 as one of the 88 "Books that Shaped America". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was an American poet and physician. Born in Rutherford, New Jersey to an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, Williams was raised in a bilingual family and spoke mostly Spanish at home. In 1902, he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school, graduating in 1906 before moving to Leipzig to study pediatrics. In 1909, he self-published Poems in Rutherford, marking a humble start to a distinguished career in literature. In 1912, he married Florence Herman and settled in Paterson, New Jersey, where he established himself as a successful family doctor. With the help of Ezra Pound, Williams published The Tempers (1913) in London and became involved with the Imagists, a short-lived literary movement centered on Pound and H. D. In 1923, he published Spring and All, a hybrid book of prose and free verse poems grounded in observations from daily life. Overshadowed by the work of T. S. Eliot, Williams nevertheless became the figurehead of an experimental American modernism that would flower in his five-book epic poem Paterson, published between 1946 and 1958. In addition to his poetry, which he pursued alongside a decades-long career in medicine, Williams gained a reputation as an autobiographer, essayist, and theorist whose interests ranged from the nature of poetic language to the narrative of American history. He served as a mentor to generations of poets, influencing directly and indirectly the artists of the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School. Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems (1962), his final work, earned Williams a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1963.