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William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
William Carlos Williams American poet William Carlos Williams, c. 1955.

William Carlos Williams

American poet
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William Carlos Williams (born September 17, 1883, Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.—died March 4, 1963, Rutherford) was an American poet who succeeded in making the ordinary appear extraordinary through the clarity and discreteness of his imagery. His signature poems include “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This Is Just to Say.” After receiving an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906 and after internship in New York and graduate study in pediatrics in Leipzig, Germany, he returned...

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