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Born in September 17, 1883 / Died in March 4, 1963 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POEMS

  • (Under name William C. Williams) Poems, privately printed, 1909.
  • The Tempers, Elkin Matthews, 1913.
  • Al Que Quiere!, Four Seas, 1917.
  • Kora in Hell: Improvisations, Four Seas, 1920, reprinted, Kraus Reprint, 1973 (also see below).
  • Sour Grapes, Four Seas, 1921.
  • Go Go, Monroe Wheeler, 1923.
  • Spring and All, Contact Publishing, 1923, reprinted, Frontier Press, 1970 (also see below).
  • The Cod Head, Harvest Press, 1932.
  • Collected Poems, 1921-1931, preface by Wallace Stevens, Objectivist Press, 1934.
  • An Early Martyr and Other Poems, Alcestis Press, 1935.
  • Adam & Eve & The City, Alcestis Press, 1936.
  • The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, New Directions, 1938.
  • The Broken Span, New Directions, 1941.
  • The Wedge, Cummington Press (Cummington, Massachusetts), 1944.
  • Paterson, New Directions, Book I, 1946, Book II, 1948, Book III, 1949, Book IV, 1951, Book V, 1958, Books I-V published in one volume, 1963.
  • The Clouds, Wells College Press and Cummington Press, 1948.
  • Selected Poems, introduction by Randall Jarrell, New Directions, 1949, revised edition, 1968.
  • The Pink Church, Golden Goose Press, 1949.
  • The Collected Later Poems, New Directions, 1950, revised edition, 1963.
  • Collected Earlier Poems, New Directions, 1951, revised edition, 1966.
  • The Desert Music and Other Poems, Random House, 1954 (also see below).
  • Journey to Love (includes Asphodel, That Greeny Flower), Random House, 1955 (also see below).
  • The Lost Poems of William Carlos Williams; or, The Past Recaptured, collected by John C. Thirlwall, published in New Directions 16, New Directions, 1957.
  • Pictures From Brueghel and Other Poems (includes The Desert Music and Journey to Love), New Directions, 1962.
  • Selected Poems, introduction by Charles Tomlinson, Penguin, 1976.
  • Collected Poems: Volume 1, 1909-1939, edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan, Carcanet, 1988, Volume 2, 1939-1962, edited by MacGowan, 1989.
  • Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems, new Directions, 1994.
  • Early Poems, Dover Publications, 1997.
  • William Carlos Williams, compiled by S. L. Berry, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 2003.
  • William Carlos Williams: Poetry for Young People, edited by Christopher MacGowan, Sterling Pub. Co. (New York, NY), 2003.

OTHER

  • The Great American Novel, Three Mountains Press, 1923, reprinted, Folcroft, 1973 (also see below).
  • In the American Grain (essays), A. & C. Boni, 1925, reprinted with introduction by Horace Gregory, New Directions, 1967.
  • A Voyage to Pagany (novel), Macaulay, 1928, reprinted, New Directions, 1970.
  • (Translator) Philippe Soupault, Last Nights of Paris, Macaulay, 1929, reprinted, Full Court Press, 1982.
  • The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories (short stories), Dragon Press, 1932, reprinted, Folcroft, 1974.
  • A Novelette and Other Prose, TO Publishers, 1932 (also see below).
  • The First President (three-act libretto for an opera), published in American Caravan, 1936.
  • White Mule (novel; part I of trilogy), New Directions, 1937, reprinted, 1967.
  • Life along the Passaic River (short stories), New Directions, 1938.
  • In the Money (novel; part II of White Mule trilogy), New Directions, 1940, reprinted, 1967.
  • A Dream of Love (three-act play), New Directions, 1948.
  • A Beginning on the Short Story: Notes, Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950, reprinted, Norwood, 1978.
  • Make Light of It: Collected Stories, Random House, 1950.
  • Autobiography, Random House, 1951, published as The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1967.
  • The Build-Up (novel; part III of White Mule trilogy), Random House, 1952.
  • (Translator with mother, Raquel Helene Williams) Pedro Espinosa, A Dog and the Fever (novella), Shoe String Press, 1954.
  • Selected Essays, Random House, 1954.
  • The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, edited by John C. Thirlwall, McDowell, Obolensky, 1957.
  • I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet, edited by Edith Heal, Beacon Press, 1958.
  • Yes, Mrs. Williams: A Personal Record of My Mother, McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
  • Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1961.
  • The Farmers' Daughters: Collected Stories, introduction by Van Wyck Brooks, New Directions, 1961.
  • The William Carlos Williams Reader, edited and introduced by M. L. Rosenthal, New Directions, 1966.
  • Imaginations (contains Kora in Hell, Spring and All, The Great American Novel, The Descent of Winter, and A Novelette and Other Prose), edited by Webster Schott, New Directions, 1970.
  • The Embodiment of Knowledge (philosophy), edited by Ron Loewinsohn, New Directions, 1974.
  • Interviews With William Carlos Williams: "Speaking Straight Ahead," edited and introduced by Linda Welshimer Wagner, New Directions, 1976.
  • A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists, edited by Bram Dijkstra, New Directions, 1978.
  • William Carlos Williams: The Doctor Stories, compiled with an introduction by Robert Coles, New Directions, 1984.
  • The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1996.
  • Pound/Williams: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, edited by Hugh Witemeyer, New Directions, 1996.
  • The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, edited by Christopher MacGowan, New Directions, 1998.
  • William Carlos Williams and Charles Tomlinson: A Transatlantic Connection, edited by Barry Magid and Hugh Witemeyer, P. Lang (New York City), 1998.
  • The Humane Particulars: The Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 2003.

Contributor to numerous literary magazines and journals, including Poetry, The Dial, Origin, Blast, Pagany, Little Review, New Masses, Partisan Review, and Glebe. Contributing editor of literary magazines and journals, including Contact I, 1920-23, and Contact II, 1932.