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.

Works

Poetry

• Poems (1909)
• The Tempers (1913)
• Al Que Quiere (1917)
• Kora in Hell. Improvisations (1920, repr. 1973)
• Sour Grapes (1921)
• Go Go (1923)
• Spring and All (1923; repr. 1970)
• The Cod Head (1932)
• Collected Poems, 1921-1931 (1934)
• An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935)
• Adam & Eve & The City (1936)
• The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938 (1938)
• The Broken Span (1941)
• The Wedge (1944)
• Paterson (Book I, 1946; Book II, 1948; Book III, 1949; Book IV, 1951; Book V, 1958)
• Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia (1948)
• The Collected Later Poems (1950; rev. ed.1963)
• Collected Earlier Poems (1951; rev. ed., 1966)
• 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)
• Imaginations (1970)
• ' (1988)
• ' (1989)
• Early Poems (1997)

Prose

• Kora in Hell (1920)
• The Great American Novel (1923)
• In the American Grain (1925, 1967, repr. New Directions 2004)
• Novelette and Other Prose (1932)
• Autobiography (1951; 1967)
• Selected Essays (1954)
• The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957)
• ' (1958)
• ' (1959)
• Imaginations (1970)
• The Embodiment of Knowledge (1974)
• ' (1976)
• ' (1978)
• ' (1996)
• The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams (1998)
• ' (1998)

Fiction

• A Voyage to Pagany (1928; repr. 1970)
• The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories (1932; repr. 1974)
• White Mule (1937; repr. 1967)
• Life along the Passaic River (1938)
• In the Money (1940; repr. 1967)
• ' (1950)
• The Build-Up (1952)
• ' (1961)
• The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams (1996)

Drama

• ' (1961)

Miscellaneous

• He wrote the introduction to Howl by Allen Ginsberg (1955)