William Carlos Williams is recognized as one of the most important and prominent figures of the Imagist movement, a subset of Modernism. Williams was born on the 17th of September, 1883, in Rutherford, New Jersey, where he would spend the majority of his life. He was the older of two sons. His father was English and his mother was Puerto Rican.
Williams grew up in a very literary household, being introduced to Dante and Shakespeare at a young age by his father. He attended Horace Mann High School, initially studying math and science, before developing an interest in writing and languages later on. Williams went on to study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, often struggling with...
