ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The variable foot was developed by William Carlos Williams in his work “Patterson” and is based on the idea that each line corresponds exactly to one single breath unit.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was a medical doctor, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. With Ezra Pound and H.D., Williams was a leading poet of the Imagist movement and often wrote of American subjects and themes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rockefeller’s City (1933), Public Speech (1936), and America Was Promises (1939). His Collected Poems 1917–1952 (1952) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. His radio verse plays include The Fall of the City (1937), Air Raid (1938), and The Great American Fourth of July Parade (1975).

Detailed explanation-4: -Regarded as one of the foremost modernist poets, Williams wrote in a unique style known as imagism. Instead of being frank and straightforward with his words, Williams took a “show, don’t tell” approach to his poetry.

Detailed explanation-5: -William Carlos Williams’ Late Career and Late Life He is credited with influencing the writers Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsburg. By the 1950s and 1960s, he was much admired by the Beat Generation and the Black Mountain Poets. From the early 1940s through 1958, Williams worked on his five-volume epic poem Paterson.