In the American Grain Summary
William Carlos Williams

Biography EssayOne should perhaps always resist the temptation to sum up a writer's life and work, his "essence," by way of a single revealing anecdote. In the case of William Carlos Williams, however... Read more

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a n... Read more

Writing his first article on poetry in A.R. Orage's magazine the New Age, F. S. Flint seized upon a recently published book of Japanese poetry in translation, Sword and Blossom, and wrote feelingly of... Read more

Best known as a poet, William Carlos Williams was an accomplished writer in many genres. He produced twenty-three volumes of poetry, five collections of short fiction, six novels, seven books of nonfi... Read more