This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams,''This Is Just to Say'' from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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Poet William Carlos Williams 1883–1963
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Subjects Living, Marriage & Companionship, Love, Realistic & Complicated, Activities, Eating & Drinking, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Home Life, Men & Women
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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
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SUBJECT Living, Marriage & Companionship, Love, Realistic & Complicated, Activities, Eating & Drinking, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Home Life, Men & Women
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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