William carlos williams (1883- 1963) is one of the most famous American poets in the 20th century. When talking about personal influence in The Waste Land, Williams said, "To me, it is especially like a mocking bullet from the head. I immediately felt that this set me back for 20 years, and I believe it is. " In another place, Williams regarded the publication of The Waste Land as a bolt from the blue in the poetry circle, saying, "It's as if the atomic bomb fell and blew up our world, and all kinds of brave assaults on unknown areas turned to dust." Eliot opened up the western modern poetry world with his poetry creation, and the British and American new criticism theory founded with his aesthetic thought dominated the British and American poetry criticism forum and university literature lecture hall for 30 years. Williams, on the other hand, thinks that Eliot is looking backwards, and he should look forward, that is, he hopes that he can create pure American poetry to resist Eliot's creative line. Williams' father is English and his parents immigrated to the United States. He is the first generation of Americans born in America. He has been a professional doctor all his life, focusing on clinic and equipment. His occupation and background made him a realistic poet. Williams is not good at propagating traditional and conceptual things, unwilling to eulogize European traditions and civilization, and also opposed to the elite consciousness, thinking that poetry must go out of the ivory tower and return to reality. Williams believes that only by adhering to the American spirit is the artistic path he wants to pursue. His anti-European traditional culture is reflected in his Americanized poetic concept of "only the new is good". His other famous saying "No concept, except in things" highly summarizes Williams' poetic creation principle: abandon tradition, return to life and express ideas with simple and clear images. William's masterpiece "The Red Car" was completed in 1923 under the guidance of the creative idea of trying to run counter to Eliot's poetic concept and advocating returning to real life. It can be appropriately deleted: william carlos williams (September 17,1883—March 4 1963) is an American poet closely related to modernism and imagery. He is also a pediatrician and a general practitioner. Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. His grandmother, an English woman abandoned by her husband, came to the United States with her son, remarried and moved to Puerto Rico. Her son, Williams' father, married a Puerto Rican woman of French Basque and Dutch Jewish descent. Williams received primary and secondary education in Rutherford until 6543 8+0897, when he was sent to a school near Geneva and condorcet Middle School in Paris to study for O years. After returning to new york City, he attended Horace Mann School, passed a special exam, was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania Medical College in 1902, and graduated in 1906. After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Williams worked as an intern in French hospital and new york Children's Hospital before going to Leipzig for advanced pediatric research. He published his first book, Poems, on 1909. After Williams returned from Germany, he married Florence Herman (19 12). They moved into a house in Rutherford, New Jersey, which has been their home for many years. Shortly thereafter, with the help of his friend ezra pound, his second collection of poems, Temper, was published by London Press. They met while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. In about 19 14, Williams had his first son, William E. Williams, followed by his second son, Paul H. Williams, in 19 17. His first son will follow Williams to become a doctor when he grows up. Although Williams' main occupation is family doctor, his literary career is very successful and he is a poet. Besides poetry (his main literary focus), he occasionally writes short stories, plays, novels, essays and translations. He practices medicine during the day and writes at night. Early in his career, through his friendship with Pound and H.D. (he was also their friend at the University of Pennsylvania), he briefly participated in the Imagist movement, but soon he began to form different views from them. In 19 15, Williams began to associate with a group of new york artists and writers called "others". This group was founded by the poet Alfred Krambo and the artist Ray, and its members include Walter Conrad Allenberg, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore and marcel duchamp. 1920, when Williams published his most experimental book Cora in Hell: Improvisation, he was sharply criticized by many colleagues (such as H.D., Pound and Wallace Stevens). Pound called the work "incoherent", and H.D. thought it "reckless". Baroness Elsa von Frey Etag-Lorinhoven, a Dadaist artist and poet, criticized Williams' sex and artistic politics in her experimental prose poem review, which was entitled "I call it' Hamlet with a wedding ring'" and was published in Little Review in March. A few years later, Williams published his groundbreaking collection of poems, Spring and Everything, which included classic poems, The Road to the Infectious Disease Hospital, The Red Cart and To Elsee. However, in 1922, the year before Williams published Spring and Everything, T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land, which caused a sensation in the literary world and overshadowed Williams' completely different modernist poems. Williams later wrote in his autobiography: "I immediately felt that The Waste Land set me back for 20 years, and I am sure it did. Crucially, Eliot brought us back to the classroom, and at this time I feel that we are about to escape the problem that is closer to the essence of a new art form itself-rooted in the local area, which should bring it fruit. " Although he respected Eliot's works, he publicly criticized Eliot's highly academic style and frequently used foreign languages and allusions from classical and European literature. On the contrary, Williams prefers American spoken language. In his modernist epic collage Paterson (published in 1946 and 1958), he described the history, people and essence of Paterson, New Jersey. He wrote his own modern epic and paid attention to the "local" in a wider range than he had tried before. He also studied the role of poets in American society, and famously summed up his poetic methods with the phrase "There is no thought, only things" (this sentence is found in his poem "A Song" and appears repeatedly in Patterson's poems). In his later years, Williams guided and influenced many young poets. He had a particularly significant influence on many American literary movements in the1950s, including the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Montenegro School and the new york School. As a mentor, one of Williams' most active relationships is with Allen Ginberg, a New Jersey poet. Williams collected several letters from Ginger in Patterson, claiming that one of them inspired the fifth part of the work. Williams also wrote an introduction to Jin's important first book Howl and other poems at 1956. Williams had a heart attack on 1948, and a series of strokes after 1949. Severe depression after a stroke made him stay in Hillside Hospital in new york for four months, tel: 1953. He died at his home in Rutherford on March 4th, 1963 at the age of 79. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.