William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, the son of
an English father and Puerto Rican mother. He entered the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School in 1902, where he became close friends with poets Ezra Pound and
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). He is associated with the Imagiste movement, although Williams
differed from Pound and H.D. in his dedication to expressing a uniquely American
Idiom. His prose piece In the American Grain was highly influential in this regard, and
had an immense impact on the Beats and the Black Mountain poets, in particular.
Although Williams worked as a doctor for most of his life, he remained a prolific writer
and was highly respected among the literary circles of his day. ‘No ideas but in things”
placed the root of his poetics in the objective world, as opposed to the subjectivity of
imagination or memory.
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