William Carlos Williams Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach William Carlos Williams.

  • 7 Biographies
  • 3 Student Essays
  • 23 Literature Criticisms
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Biographies (7)

1,661 words, approx. 6 pages
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), American writer and pediatrician, developed in his poetry a lucid, vital style that reproduced the characteristic rhythms of American speech.William Carlos William... Read more
6,327 words, approx. 22 pages
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
1,195 words, approx. 4 pages
William Carlos Williams has been considered one of America's foremost modernists, perhaps the quintessential avant-gardist, one who has had a profound influence on subsequent generations of writers. T... Read more
3,705 words, approx. 13 pages
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
19,015 words, approx. 64 pages
One 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, a story Kenn... Read more
2,608 words, approx. 9 pages
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
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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