William Carlos Williams ( born William Carlos Williams , September 17, 1883 , Rutherford, New Jersey - March 4, 1963 , ibid.) - One of the largest poets in the United States.
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| William Carlos Williams | |
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| Date of Birth | September 17, 1883 |
| Place of Birth | New Jersey |
| Date of death | March 4, 1963 (aged 79) |
| Place of death | New Jersey |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | poet |
| Direction | avant-garde |
| Language of Works | |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize |
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Biography
The son of an immigrant from England and a native of Puerto Rico . Studied in Geneva , Paris , New York . In 1902 he entered the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania , in 1906 he graduated from it. He made friends with Ezra Pound , Hilda Doolittle . From 1910 to 1951 he worked as a pediatrician in his hometown. He wrote in the evening and at night.
He was a member of the Imagist group , was close to the circles of the New York literary and artistic avant-garde ( Duchamp , Picabia , Wallace Stevens , Marianne Moore , Mina Loy , etc.). During a trip to Europe in 1924 he met Joyce . Translated by Philip Supo ( 1929 ). He had a great influence on many young poets - the beatnik generation, the Black Mountain School , the New York school , he personally helped many of them.
Williams is the author of several plays, three novels, two volumes of literary and critical essays.
In 1948 he suffered a heart attack , after 1949 he survived several more heart attacks. He was treated for depression in a psychiatric clinic ( 1953 ).
Creativity
In poetry, he departed from the literature of Pound and Eliot . Moving in line with the avant-garde , he turned to purely local topics and the private everyday life of his contemporaries (a monument to them was an epic poem by Williams about the ordinary American town of Paterson , 1946 - 1958 ).
His poem '' A sort of a song "(Saxifraga):
Let the snake lurk
in grass,
Let the words on paper
will be moderately slow and fast, strong
hit, hardy,
sleepless.
- will unite people and stones
metaphor.
To create. (Not an idea,
and embody!)
Watch the flower tear apart
cobblestone.
Artwork
Poems
- Poems ( 1909 )
- The Tempers ( 1913 )
- Al Que Quiere ( 1917 )
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations ( 1920 )
- Sour Grapes ( 1921 )
- Spring and All ( 1923 )
- Go Go (1923)
- The Cod Head ( 1932 )
- Collected Poems, 1921-1931 ( 1934 )
- An Early Martyr and Other Poems ( 1935 )
- Adam & Eve & The City ( 1936 )
- The Complete Collected Poems, 1906-1938 ( 1938 )
- The Broken Span ( 1941 )
- The Wedge ( 1944 )
- Paterson , book IV ( 1946 - 1958 , full edition in one volume - 1963 )
- Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia ( 1948 )
- The Collected Later Poems ( 1950 )
- Collected Earlier Poems ( 1951 )
- The Desert Music and Other Poems ( 1954 )
- Journey to Love ( 1955 )
- Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems ( 1962 , Pulitzer Prize )
- Imaginations ( 1970 )
- Collected Poems: Volume 1, 1909-1939 ( 1988 )
- Collected Poems: Volume 2, 1939-1962 ( 1989 )
- Early Poems ( 1997 )
Prose
- The Great American Novel ( 1923 , novel)
- In the American Grain ( 1925 )
- A Voyage to Pagany ( 1928 , travel notes)
- Novelette and Other Prose ( 1932 )
- The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories ( 1932 )
- White Mule ( 1937 , novel)
- Life along the Passaic River ( 1938 , short stories)
- In the Money ( 1940 , novel, sequel to The White Mule)
- Make Light of It: Collected Stories ( 1950 )
- Autobiography ( 1951 )
- The Build-Up ( 1952 trilogy novel)
- Selected Essays ( 1954 )
- I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet ( 1958 )
- Yes, Mrs. Williams: A Personal Record of My Mother ( 1959 )
- The Farmers' Daughters: Collected Stories ( 1961 )
- The Embodiment of Knowledge ( 1974 , notes and essays)
- A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists ( 1978 )
- The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams ( 1996 )
Interview
- Speaking Straight Ahead ( 1976 )
Correspondence
- The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams ( 1957 )
- Pound / Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams ( 1996 )
- The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams ( 1998 )
- William Carlos Williams and Charles Tomlinson: A Transatlantic Connection ( 1998 )
Recognition
Bollingen Prize ( 1953 ) and other awards. After the death of Williams, the American Poetry Society instituted an annual award of his name. The Center of W. K. Williams was created in Rutherford (see: [1] ), a journal dedicated to it is published (see: [2] ).
In 2016, the American director Jim Jarmusch made the film " Paterson ", one of the sources of inspiration for this was the work of William Carlos Williams.
Translations into Russian
- William Carlos Williams. "Favorites". Translation by Natalia Sidorina. M .: Young Guard, 1984.
- From Whitman to Lowell. American poets in translations of Vladimir the British . M .: Agraf, 2005, pp. 70–99.
- William Carlos Williams. "Poems of different years." Translation by Andrey Shchetnikov. Novosibirsk: ANT, 2016.
- "Pictures, according to Brueghel." Translation by Anton Nesterov.
- Translations of Anatoly Kudryavitsky in "Anthology of Imagism."
- Translations on the website "Shop of languages".
- Other translations from Williams.
Literature
- William Carlos Williams; a collection of critical essays / J. Hillis Miller, ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966
- Whittemore R. William Carlos Williams, poet from Jersey. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1975
- Bloom H. William Carlos Williams. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986
- Hatlen B., Tryphonopoulos DP William Carlos Williams and the language of poetry. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2002