William carlos williams william carlos williams was born into a merchant family in Rutherford, New Jersey, USA. When he was a teenager, he went to Europe with his mother and brother. 1902, he was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania and met ezra pound and Hilda Doolittle. This friendship gave him the passion of poetry creation. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a medical degree. Go to Leipzig University in Germany for further study. He practiced medicine all his life and didn't retire until the 1950s. In my spare time, I write poems, novels and critical articles. In his literary creation, Williams was influenced by his college friend ezra pound and other imagist writers. At the same time, he inherited Whitman's romantic tradition and experimented with poetic forms, thus developing free verse. He opposed the sentimental Victorian poetry style, insisted on "the true essence of America", and tried to write in the native American language, rarely using words unfamiliar to ordinary readers. 1950 won the American National Book Award, 1952 won the Bollinger Prize, and was hired as a poetry consultant by the Library of Congress. His main works include the long narrative poem Patterson (published in 1963), which reflects the American culture and modern people's style with the history and social life of a small town in New Jersey as the background, and is one of the representative works of contemporary American philosophical poetry.
Known as the originator of American postmodern poetry.