id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4519 William Carlos Williams - Wikipedia .html text/html 5152 555 68 William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was a Puerto Rican-American[1] poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. Pound called the work "incoherent" and H.D. thought the book was "flippant".[11] The Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa critiicized Williams's sexual and artistic politics in her experimental prose poem review titled "Thee I call 'Hamlet of Wedding Ring'", published in The Little Review in March 1921.[12] In a review of Herbert Leibowitz's biography of William Carlos Williams, "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, book critic Christopher Benfey wrote of Williams's poetry: "Early and late, Williams held the conviction that poetry was, in his friend Kenneth Burke's phrase, 'equipment for living, a necessary guide amid the bewilderments of life.' The American ground was wild and new, a place where a blooming foreigner needed all the help he could get. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4519.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4519.txt