WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) was an American poet and physician. He had a significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s, including the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.
Williams was briefly involved in the Imagist movement through his friendships with Ezra Pound and H.D., but soon began to develop opinions that differed from theirs and his style changed to express his commitment to a modernist expression of his immediate environment. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams saw his poetic project as a singularly American one and worked to invent an entirely fresh and uniquely American form of poetry whose subject matter centred on everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
In his modernist epic collage PATERSON (1946-1958), an account of the history, people, and essence of Paterson, New Jersey, Williams wrote his own modern epic poem, focusing on "the local" on a wider scale than he had previously attempted. He also examined the role of the poet in American society and famously summarized his poetic method in the phrase "No ideas but in things". In 1963 he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL & OTHER POEMS (1962).
In addition to poetry, Williams was also a prolific writer of prose, including essays, fiction, and plays. IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN (1925) analyzed the American character and culture through essays on historical figures. He wrote several novels, two of which are included here. Among his notable short stories are “Jean Beicke,” “A Face of Stone,” and “The Farmers’ Daughters.” His play "A Dream of Love" (1948) was produced in off-Broadway and academic theatres, and his AUTOBIOGRAPHY appeared in 1951.
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:
== POETRY ==
* Al Que Quiere! (New Directions, 2017). Jonathan Cohen, ed. -- ePUB
* Collected Earlier Poems (New Directions, 1951) -- PDF
* Collected Poems (New Directions, 1991). 2 vols. MacGowan, ed. -- ePUB
* Early Poems (Dover, 1997) -- ePUB
* Paterson (revised edition) (New Directions, 1995) -- ePUB
* Pictures from Brueghel & Other Poems (New Directions, 1962) -- ePUB
* Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems (New Directions, 2018) -- ePUB + PDF
* Selected Poems (New Directions, 1985). Charles Tomlinson, ed. -- ePUB
* Spring and All (New Directions, 2011) -- ePUB
== FICTION & PLAYS ==
* Build-Up, The: A Novel (New Directions, 1985) -- PDF
* Doctor Stories, The (New Directions, 1984). Robert Cole, ed. -- ePUB
* Farmers' Daughters, The: Collected Stories (New Directions, 1961) -- PDF
* Many Loves & Other Plays (New Directions, 1965) -- PDF
* White Mule: A Novel (New Directions, 1967) -- PDF
== LETTERS & NON-FICTION ==
* Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions, 1967) -- ePUB
* Imaginations (New Directions, 1971) -- ePUB
* In the American Grain: Essays (New Directions, 2009). 2nd edition. -- ePUB
* Last Word: Letters of Marcia Nardi & WCW (Iowa, 1994). O'Neil, ed. -- PDF
* Selected Letters of WCW & James Laughlin (Norton, 1989). Witemeyer, ed. -- PDF
* Something to Say: On Younger Poets (New Directions, 1985). Breslin, ed. -- PDF
* WCW & Charles Tomlinson (Peter Lang, 1999). Magid and Witemeyer, ed. -- PDF
== OTHER ==
* William Carlos Williams Reader (New Directions, 1965). Rosenthal, ed. -- PDF
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