美国文学-William-Carlos-Williams

A few years later, Williams published one of his seminal books of poetry, Spring
and All, which contained the classic poems "By the road to the contagious hospital," "The Red Wheelbarrow," and "To Elsie." However, in 1922, the year before Williams published Spring and All, T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land which became a literary sensation and overshadowed Williams's very different brand of poetic Modernism. In his Autobiography, Williams would later write, "I felt at once that The Waste Land had set me back twenty years and I'm sure it did. Critically, Eliot returned us to the classroom just at the moment when I felt we were on a point to escape to matters much closer to the essence of a new art form itself—rooted in the locality which should give it fruit." And although he respected the work of Eliot, Williams became openly critical of Eliot's highly intellectual style with its frequent use of foreign languages and allusions to classical and European literature. Instead, Williams preferred colloquial American English.
Books, prose
The Great American Novel (1923) - A novel. Spring and All (1923) - A hybrid of prose and verse. A Voyage to Pagany (1928) - An autobiographical travelogue in the form of a novel. The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories (1932) White Mule (1937) - A novel. Life along the Passaic River (1938) - Short stories. In the Money (1940) - Sequel to White Mule. Make Light of It: Collected Stories (1950) The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (1958) The Farmers' Daughters: Collected Stories (1961) Imaginations (1970) - A collection of five previously published early works. The Embodiment of Knowledge (1974) - Philosophical and critical notes and essays.
In 1915 Williams began to associate with a group of New York artists and
writers known as "The Others." Founded by the poet Alfred Kreymborg and the artist Man Ray, this group included Walter Conrad Arensberg, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore and Marcel Duchamp.
In his later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets. He had
an especially 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.
Although his primary occupation was as a family doctor, Williams had a
successful literary career as a poet. In addition to poetry (his main literary focus), he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and translations. He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement through his friendships with Pound and H.D. (whom he also befriended at the University of Pennsylvania), but soon he began to develop opinions that differed from theirs.
Williams suffered a heart attack in 1948 and after 1949, a series of strokes.
Severe depression after one such stroke caused him to be confined to Hillside Hospital, New York, for four months in 1953. He died on March 4, 1963, at the age of 79 at his home in Rutherford.
Honors and awards
Williams won the first National Book Award for Poetry, recognizing both the third volume of Paterson and Selected Poems. In May 1963, he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) and the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams by presenting the prestigious William Carlos Williams Award annually for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press. Williams's house in Rutherford is now on the National Register of Historic Places. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009.
William Carlos Williams
（1883-1963）
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Life and career
Born:in Rutherford, New Jersey, United States Family:Williams's father married a Puerto Rican woman of French Basque and Dutch Jewish descent Education:studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania spent a year of graduate study in pediatrics at Leipzig Occupation:family doctor , physician ,poet,writer Marriage: married Florence Herman (1891–1976) in 1912, after he returned from Germany;two sons
Drama
Many Loves d Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams (1962)
Writing style
interest in everyday events innovative language and precise detail the tone is casual affirmative and committed simplicity and lucidity
Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia (1948) The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954) Journey to Love (1955) Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) Paterson (Books I-V in one volume) (1963)
His works
First work:Poems, in 1909 Notable works :The Red Wheelbarrow; Spring and All Masterpiece:Paterson
Poetry
Poems (1909) The Tempers (1913) Sour Grapes (1921) Spring and All (1923) The Cod Head (1932) An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935) Adam & Eve & The City (1936) The Broken Span (1941) The Wedge (1944) Paterson Book I (1946); Book II (1948); Book III (1949); Book IV (1951); Book V (1958)