The Autobiography of William Carlos WilliamsWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). At the same time as maintaining a popular medical practice, he became a prolific poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. Experimenting with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh and singularly American poetics, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009. |
Contents
FOREWORD ΧΙ Part | 8 |
First Memories | 8 |
The Bagellon House | 8 |
At the Shore | 9 |
Pop and Mother | 14 |
In My Early Teens | 18 |
Sunday School | 22 |
To Run | 26 |
A Sabbatical Year | 179 |
Our Trip Abroad | 185 |
Cousins | 198 |
Paris Again | 209 |
Goodbye Paris | 232 |
Home Again | 235 |
A Maternity Case | 247 |
Gertrude Stein | 251 |
Switzerland | 28 |
Paris | 35 |
Back to School | 43 |
Medicine | 50 |
Ezra Pound | 56 |
The Observatory | 67 |
Dr Henna | 71 |
French Hospital | 76 |
The Wrath of God | 86 |
Hells Kitchen | 90 |
The First Book | 106 |
Leipzig | 109 |
Ezra in London | 113 |
Paris and Italy | 118 |
Part | 125 |
First Years of Practice | 127 |
Painters and Parties | 134 |
Our Fishman | 143 |
The Waste Land | 146 |
Charles Demuth | 151 |
Sour Grapes | 157 |
The Baroness | 163 |
New Faces | 170 |
Bronx Zoo | 260 |
When a Man Goes Down | 263 |
The End of the Middle | 273 |
Part Three | 277 |
A Look Back | 279 |
Of Medicine and Poetry | 286 |
The City of the Hospital | 290 |
White Mule | 298 |
Storm | 303 |
Lectures | 309 |
The F B I and Ezra Pound | 316 |
Friendship | 320 |
Projective Verse | 329 |
Ezra Pound at St Elizabeths | 335 |
Yaddo | 345 |
Translations | 349 |
The Practice | 356 |
1950 | 363 |
The College Life | 372 |
The Ocean the Orient | 382 |
The Poem Paterson | 390 |
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