biography
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Williams, William Carlos
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1963)
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| biography:
| Poet, writer, and physician, born in Rutherford, New Jersey, USA. He studied in Switzerland and Paris (1897–9), the University of Pennsylvania's medical school (1906 MD), and did postgraduate work in paediatrics in Leipzig (1909–10). Returning to Rutherford, he successfully combined his career in medicine with that of poet (1910–51). He was associated with the Imagists early on, but preferred to call his approach ‘objectivism’. He went on to create a revolutionary Modernist approach to prose and poetry, and his masterpiece is generally regarded to be the semi-autobiographical epic poem, Paterson (5 vols, 1946–58). Also a novelist, playwright, critic, and translator, he was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC (1952), but declined to serve. |
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