William Carlos Williams was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
Portrait by Man Ray, 1924
A selection of William Carlos Williams poetry on a plaque in New York City
I saw the figure 5 in gold. Charles Demuth, 1928. The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. William Carlos Williams 1920.
This Is Just To Say (wall poem in The Hague)
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism has been termed "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic René Taupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctrine, nor even as a poetic school, but as the association of a few poets who were for a certain time in agreement on a small number of important principles".
The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914.
H.D. in 1917
Richard Aldington in 1931
The American Imagist Amy Lowell, who edited later volumes of Some Imagist Poets; in 1925, Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
