Love Song
Source: William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (The Library of America, 2004)
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Poet William Carlos Williams 1883–1963
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Subjects Nature, Fall, Trees & Flowers, Love, Desire, Romantic Love, Unrequited Love
Biography
William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own . . .
Poems by William Carlos Williams
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Nature, Fall, Trees & Flowers, Love, Desire, Romantic Love, Unrequited Love
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
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