威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯1883年出生于新泽西的一个小镇。在宾西法尼亚大学上完医学院后,他返回了新泽西的卢瑟福德,在那里终生行医不辍,同时也发表诗歌、小说、杂文及戏剧。他熟谙邻近的纽约文坛,与埃兹拉·庞德及希尔达·杜丽特尔交好,成为美国现代派诗歌的核心人物。威廉斯起初倾倒于庞德的“意象主义”宣言,但很快便对其局限性产生怀疑,并在现代派中另辟蹊径,独树起一面旗帜。诗集《春天及一切》中的标题诗是这样开头的:去往传染病院的路上空中料峭的春风挟着斑蓝色的云团由东北方滚滚而来。此诗完成之前不久,《日冕》刚刚发表了T·S·艾略特的《荒原》,开头 William Carlos Williams was born in 1883 in a small town in New Jersey. After finishing his medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, he returned to Rutherford, New Jersey, where he spent his entire life practicing medicine, as well as poetry, novels, essays and plays. He is familiar with the neighboring New York literary world, is associated with Ezra Pound and Hilda Durittel and becomes a central figure in American modernist poetry. Williams first dumped Pound’s “image of the” doctrine, but soon became suspicious of its limitations and set itself apart from the rest of the modernist line. The poem “Spring and Everything” begins with the title poem: The air springing in the air on the way to the Infectious Diseases resorts to a plague blue cloud billowing from the northeast. Shortly before the poem was completed, the “Corona” had just published “Wasteland” by TS Eliot, beginning with