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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was an American-Puerto Rican poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a c…
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science · American poet (1883–1963) · poet · physician · autobiographer · physician writer · literary critic · writer · also William Carlos Williams, Williams
Born 17 September 1883 · Died 4 March 1963 · Q178106
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2026· 2 entries
“the great catastrophe to our letters—the appearance of T. S. Eliot”
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm.
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2009).
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2006· 1 entry
Published “A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder” in Archives of Internal Medicine — cited 29,101 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “The PHQ-9” in Journal of General Internal Medicine — cited 39,665 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
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1986· 1 entry
Published “Learning representations by back-propagating errors” in Nature — cited 24,505 times.
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland.
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1963· 4 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1963).
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Died 1963-03-04.
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“The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”
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“Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.”
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1956).
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“s first book, Howl and Other Poems in 1956. Williams suffered a heart attack in 1948, and after 1949, a series of strokes. Severe depression after one such stroke caused him to be confined to Hillside Hospital, New York, for four months in 1953. He died on March 4, 1963, at age 79 at his home in Rutherford. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Poetry The poet and critic Randall Jarrell stated of Williams”
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Bollingen Prize (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Williams was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, but was barred from serving out his term due to unfounded accusations of Williams's membership in a communist organization
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1950· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award for Selected poems (1950).
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With awards by the book industry to authors of books published in 1949 in three categories
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics.
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1937· 1 entry
And his poem "Jersey Lyric", written in response to Henry Niese's 1960 painting of the same title:
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1923· 1 entry
Williams published Spring and All, one of his seminal books of poetry, which contained the classics "By the road to the contagious hospital", "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To Elsie"
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1920· 4 entries
“The purpose of an artist, whatever it is, is to take the life, whatever he sees, and to raise it up to an elevated position where it has dignity.”
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Williams turned his attentions to Contact, a periodical launched by Williams and fellow writer Robert McAlmon: "The two editors sought American cultural renewal in the local condition in clear opposition to the internati
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In order to create an outlet for works showcasing the belief that creative work should derive from the artist's direct experience and sense of place and reject traditional notions of how this should be done
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Williams was sharply criticized by many of his peers (including H
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1915· 1 entry
Williams began to associate with the New York group of artists and writers known as "The Others
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1902· 1 entry
To the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1906
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-09-17.
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