William Carlos Williams

Born in Rutherford, United States of America, in 1883, William Carlos Williams studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and in Leipzig, becoming a doctor. In 1909 he published his first literary work, "Poems," and from 1910 onwards, he devoted himself entirely to literature.
Ezra Pound, whom William had met at the University of Pennsylvania and with whom he had become great friends, managed to get his second book, "The Tempers," published in 1913. He wrote poems, short stories, plays, and autobiographies. Following the influence of Ezra Pound, he was one of the leading poets of the Imagist movement, but, as time went on, he came to disagree with the values ​​evident in the poetry of Pound and T.S. Eliot because they were too tied to European traditions and culture.
Among his major works are "Kora in Hell" (1920), "Spring and All" (1923), "Pictures from Bruegel and Other Poems" (1962), "the five-volume epic Paterson" (1963, 1992), and "Imaginations" (1970).
After a heart attack, William Carlos Williams' health began to decline, and he died in New Jersey in 1963.
The importance of his work was progressively recognized from the 1950s and 60s onwards, with his books influencing Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation. He posthumously received the Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for his book "Pictures from Bruegel and Other Poems".