William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (born 1883)

William Carlos Williams

American poet (1883–1963)

William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my…