Early and late, williams held the conviction that poetry was, in his friend kenneth burkes phrase, equipment for living, a. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the. Imaginations by william carlos williams, 1970 online research. Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in france. He began writing poetry while still a student at horace mann high school, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. Williams worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician, wrote biographer linda wagnermartin.
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