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William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (died 1963)

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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…
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September 17

Day of the year

September 17 is the 260th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 105 days remain until the end of the year.
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