William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism. He was particularly concerned with developing poetry in a recognizably American idiom.

External links

• A collection of public domain poems (before 1923) of WCW. It includes poems from Poems (1909), The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! A Book of Poems (1917) and the full (!!!) volume of Sour Grapes (1921).
• A small biography and a huge collection of poems from The Complete Collected Poems 1906-1938, An Early Martyr, Journey to Love, Poems, Sour Grapes, The Broken Span, The Clouds, The Wedge. Has a photo of an older WCW.
• Homepage of The William Carlos Williams Review An outdated site that stopped being updated in 1999. Nevertheless it is noteworthy because of a photo of a young William Carlos Williams.
• William Carlos Williams Bibliography 1986 - 1998 - as compiled by the William Carlos Williams Review.
• Biography in a chronological style i.e. date and then event in WCW's life.
• Site of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Department - The William Carlos Williams Collection 1916 - 1973 (bulk dates 1934 - 1962) The Special collection contains letters, galley proof, brochure, story, articles, and poems.
• A video clip to visualize the poem The Great Figure. It's from the WCW program of the Voices & Visions video series over at the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection
• WCW exhibit at the Academy of Poets: Another biography, another late picture of WCW, many poems
• Hear WCW read his own poem To Elsie. The text is also provided on this page.
• Summaries and annotations to several of WCW's poems and books.
• Essay: William Carlos Williams in a World of Painters
• A very long biography and poems.
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

The following photos are part of an American Lit. course page at the University of Virginia.

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• Photo of William Carlos Williams
• Signed typescript of Between Walls Source: The Barrett Collection, Alderman Library.
• Cover of the first edition of Spring and All
• Page on Williams and the Armory Show. Source of the link to the picture of Williams and the Others.
• Williams and the visual arts. Pictures by modernist painters related to WCWs work. It also features a self portrait of Williams; his not very well known side as a painter.
• A critical overview of Williams style: William Carlos William?s To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies by Dan Schneider, 6/14/03
• Interview (41 page) with William Carlos Williams and his wife Florence.
• Pictures of WCW (in toddler age, young and older), of WCW and Ezra Pound and of Florence, WCWs wife.
• Photos of modernists and imagists.
• Three high resolution photos of William Carlos Williams.
• High resolution scans of Sappho - A translation by William Carlos Williams Library of Congress, pictures shown there with permission of New Direction.