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Williams, William Carlos

Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, the son of an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, he attended Swiss and French schools before studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met Hilda Doolittle and Ezra Pound. After further medical study in New York and Leipzig, and a visit to London where he met Yeats, Williams settled down to practise medicine in Rutherford in 1909.

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REFERENCES

  • Breslin, J. E., W. C. W.: An American Artist (1970).
  • Crawford, H. T., Modernism, Medicine and W. C. W. (1995).
  • Deese, H., ed., Critical Essays on W. C. W. (1994).
  • Dijkstra, B., The Hieroglyphics of a New Speech (1969).
  • Larson, K. A., Guide to the Poetry of W. C. W. (1995).
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  • MacGowan, C., W. C. W.'s Early Poetry: The Visual Arts Background (1984).
  • Mariani, P., W. C. W.: A New World Naked (1981).
  • Marling, W., W. C. W. and the Painters, 1909–1923 (1982).
  • Miller, J. H., Poets of Reality (1966).
  • Ahearn, Barry, William Carlos Williams and Alterity: The Early Poetry, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Axelrod, Steven Gould; Helen Deese, Critical Essays on William Carlos Williams, New York: G.K. Hall, and Oxford: Macmillan, 1995.
  • Crawford, Hugh T., Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
  • Halter, Peter, The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Lowney, John, The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 1997.
  • MacGowan, Christopher, editor, The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, New York: New Directions, 1998.
  • Mariani, Paul, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, New York: McGraw Hill, 1981.
  • Pound, Ezra, Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, edited by Witemeyer, Hugh, New York: New Directions, 1996.
  • Schmidt, Peter, William Carlos Williams, the Arts, and Literary Tradition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
  • Witemeyer, Hugh, William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, New York and London: Norton, 1989.