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William Carlos Williams by Geovanny David Solera William Carlos Williams was a contemporary, modern writer of the early twentieth century, who rebelled against the formal writing structure of his time period. Along with his modern and imagist form of writing he was also a leading force to Objectivism in the nineteen-thirties. He was born in September seventeenth of eighteen eighty-four, in Rutherford, NJ. He traveled to many places but resided there for the majority of his life. In his life time he befriended some of his times important literary people like Ezra Pound, who helped him develop his aesthetic of imagism, and Hilda Doolittle. He also married Florence (Flossie) Herman and had two sons. In his life William Carlos Williams was know as both a doctor and a writer. He wrote contemporary and modernistic poems along with novels, periodicals, and plays. He was able to accomplish forty-nine books, four of them being novels, 100 contributions to books edited by other people, and more than 600 publications of periodicals. He viewed writing as a way to express complex ideas in simple ways and as a way to experiment with language and form. In his writing he concentrated on recreating American idioms in his verse because he believed that language was a reflection of character. He also thought that poets must concern themselves with local materials as an essential first step toward reaching for more universal issues. In his writing Williams sought out to improve society, he wanted to recreate American idioms in his verse and write in everyday language that he called “the American Idiom”. He also attempted to emphases his Imagist poetry on concrete pre-concision, and avoidance of conventional rhythms. Thus in his work Williams based his verse patterns on the natural pauses, cadences, and inflections of speech. In his works he also focuses on objects instead of directly expressing sentiments or ideas. Through his work he also explores several themes, although most of his works are about his local town’s themes and people, along with works of several places in America, and family. In his family oriented work he writes a lot about hid wife, Flossie, his parents, and his ancestry. Through his themes of his town and boyhood he is also able to write about the important themes like love and friendship through writing about ordinary things. During William Carlos Williams’s life a lot of major events happened around the world like World War One, the Wright brother’s first airplane flight, the invention of the radio, the sinking of Titanic, and many other events. Although all those major events happened, they aren’t mentioned in his writing, so it’s hard to say that he was a reflection of the events that were occurring around him. This caused by the fact that he centered his work on his family and community. In his early works though, during the first decade of the century his works reflect a strong admiration for John Keats. That’s why Keats is a central figure behind the short poems Williams wrote during his three years of internship at New York City hospitals after his graduation from collage in nineteen- o-six. After a long busy life that held a lot of responsibilities for Williams, as a doctor, father, husband, and writer he left behind a new style of writing, and a successful practice. Trough his work he was able to recreate the American idiom of the time. William Williams became an important and influential poet for his development of unique modern poetic forms that were free from the influence of tradition. In the nineteen- fifties he was also an important figure for poets that were seeking an alternative to the poetics of T. S. Eliot and his followers. Though his main profession and focus of education was not on literature or writing William Carlos Williams was able to help revolutionize a part of it trough his distinct and unique writing style. Reference MacGowan, Christopher. “Williams Carlos Williams”. __American Writers Retrospective Supplement__. Eds. Stephen Wagley. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998. 411  This reference book is a very good source of information over the author’s biography. It also includes a lot of information over the author’s work, but it mainly contains information about the author’s life instead of his works. It contains a lot of extra facts about the author’s life. I plan to use it for the information needed about the author’s work and biography. It would be better though if it contained a picture of the author and if it had a chronology. I would recommend this book to another person looking for information over William Carlos Williams. Zwe, Tea. “Williams, William Carlos”. __Literary Lifelines__. Eds. Nicola Chalton. Danbury. The Diagram Group, 1998. 160-161  The __Literary Lifeline__ books are a good source of information. They are a volume of books that have the well known authors. They also have a table of contents that has the authors that are in the book in alphabetical order, which makes it easy to find the author. The information itself is good, it’s a summery of the author’s life and work. The books also contain a time line of the major events that were happening during the author’s life. It also has a list of the famous literary writers at the time of the author’s life time. I plan to use it to see how my author reflected his time era. It is a good source of information in a variety of ways and that’s why I would recommend it. Williams, William. “William Carlos Williams.” __Cyclopedia of World Authors__. __Fourth Revised Edition__ Literary Reference Center. [|http://search.ebscohost.com]. It’s an O.K. website over the author’s life and work. What is good about it is that it contains a list of the author’s poetry, drama, non-fiction, long fiction, miscellaneous, and translated works that he has written along with the year that it was published. It has a large picture of the author and a list of other sources were information over the author can be found. The information on the page is good, containing information over his life and work. The bad thing is that it’s a little hard to follow, because of the vocabulary that is used. I plan to use this website for the information over my author’s work. I would recommend this website because of the listed works of the author. “Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963).” __DISCovering Authors__. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student// //Resource Center-// //Gold//. Gale. Fuquay Varina High Schoo/WCPS/.22 May. 2008 http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/ This website is a great document over the life and work of William Carlos Williams. It contains a wide variety of information over his life and a lot over his work. It is also very neatly and well organized, including information over the author’s career, awards that he received, and writing style that he had. It also included facts about his personal life and professional life. It would be better if it contained a picture and a chronology along with a list of his main works. I plan to use this website to see what were the characteristics of my author’s writing. I would strongly recommend this website because it is very well organized and it has a lot of information over the author’s literary work.