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Essay Archive - William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
"Among the poets of his own illustrious generation, William Carlos Williams
was the man on the margin, the incorrigible maverick, the embattled
messiah." (Unger 402) Throughout his career, Williams has always been
known as an experimenter, an innovator, and a revolutionary figure in
American poetry. He is regarded as an important and influential poet
because of his unique and unusually plain style. Living a life that was
rather conventional, using a writing style that was essentially breaking
the mold, and having a style that most critics were unsure a....
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