美国现代派诗人威廉.卡洛斯.威廉斯在探索新诗体的过程中借鉴了绝句与白居易的短诗。40年代,他为了写长诗而丢弃了1916至1920年创建的“立体短诗”。1958至1961年他与华裔诗人王燊甫合译中国诗,又让他得以在晚年重拾起这一诗体。本文用大量文献资料、结合中英诗歌比较,论证了中国古体诗与威廉斯“立体短诗”之间的渊源关系。 American modernist poet William Carlos Williams explores the short poem of quatrains and Bai Juyi in the process of exploring new style of poetry. In the 1940s, he dropped the “three-dimensional short poem” created from 1916 to 1920 in order to write long poems. From 1958 to 1961 he translated Chinese poetry with the Chinese poet, Wang Shenfu, and allowed him to regain his poetry in his later years. In this paper, a large number of documents, combined with the comparison of Chinese and English poems, demonstrate the origin of the relationship between Chinese ancient poetry and Williams “three-dimensional short poems ”.