American Poetry

Although he appeared as a poet relatively late in his career, the author left a considerable work and is considered one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, whose influence remains intact. At the same time, his theory of poetry, exhibited in many poetry poems as well as in essays and aphorisms - the latter collected in "The Necessary Angel," 1951, and "Opus Posthumous," 1957 - exerted an almost invaluable influence on American literary critics and theorists.

William Carlos William is considered one of the most influential poets in the United States. Modernism. Sometimes his late work is also attributed to postmodernism. His literary reputation grew steadily during his lifetime, but only slowly, and it was only with the posthumous Pulitzer Prize for the collection of poetry Pictures from Brueghel (1962) that his prominent place in the canon of American poetry was finally confirmed.