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The Poet's Works
 
 
After writing his first poem in high school, it seems as though Williams was unable to put down the pen for the rest of his life.  In addition to writing poetry he also wrote plays, novels, short stories, and essays.  Furthermore, he wrote thoughts on philosophy, as well as he translated books by other writers.  The following are William Carlos Williams' works:

His Poetry:
 
  • Poems, privately printed, Rutherford, NJ (under the name William C. Williams), 1909.
  • The Tempers, Elkins Matthews,1913.
  • Al Que Quiere!, Four Seas, 1917.
  • Kora in Hell:  Improvisations, Four Seas, 1920.
  • Sour Grapes, Four Seas, 1921.
  • Go Go, Monroe Wheeler, 1923.
  • Spring and All, Contact Publishing, 1923.
  • The Cod Head, Harvest Press, 1932.
  • Collected Poems, 1921-1931, preface by Wallace Stevens, Objectivist Press, 1934.
  • An Early Martyr and Other Poems, Alcestis Press, 1935.
  • Adam & Eve & The City, Alcestis Press, 1936.
  • The Complete Colected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938, New Directions, 1938.
  • The Broken Span, New Directions, 1941.
  • The Wedge, Cummington Press (Cummington, Massachusetts), 1944.
  • Paterson, New Directions, Book I, 1946, Book II, 1948, Book III, 1949, Book IV, 1951, Book V, 1958, Books I-V in one volume, 1963.
  • The Clouds, Wells College Press and Cummington Press, 1948.
  • Selected Poems, introduction by Randal Jarrell, New Directions, 1949.
  • The Pink Church, Golden Goose Press, 1949.
  • The Collected Later Poems, New Directions, 1950.
  • Collected Earlier Poems, New Directions, 1951.
  • The Desert Music and Other Poems, Random House, 1954.
  • Journey to Love (includes "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"), Random House, 1955.
  • The Lost Poems of William Carlos Williams; or, The Past Recaptured, collected by John C. Thirwall, published in New Directions 16, New Directions, 1957.
  • Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (includes "The Desert Music" and "Journey to Love"), New Directions, 1962.
  • Selected Poems, Introduction by Charles Tomlinson, Penguin, 1976.
  • Collected Poems: Volume 1, 1909-1939, edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan, Carcanet, 1988, Volume 2, 1939-1962, edited by MacGowan, 1989. 
  • Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems, New Directions, 1994.
  • Early Poems, Dover Publications, 1997.
  • William Carlos Williams, compiled by S. L. Berry, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 2003.
  • William Carlos Williams: Poetry for Young People, edited by Christopher MacGowan, Sterling Publishing Company (New York, NY), 2003.

His Other Writings:
 
  • The Great American Novel, Three Mountains Press, 1923.
  • In the American Grain (essays), A. & C. Boni, 1925.
  • A voyage to Pagany (novel), Macaulay, 1928.
  • (Translator) Philippe Soupault, Last Nights of Paris, Macaulay, 1929.
  • The Knife of the Times, and Other Stories (short stories), Dragon Press, 1932.
  • A Novelette and Other Prose, TO Publishers, 1932.
  • The First President (three-act libretto for an opera), published in American Caravan, 1936.
  • White Mule (novel; part I of trilogy), New Directions, 1937.
  • Life Along the Passaic River (short stories), New Directions, 1938.
  • In the Money (novel; part II of White Mule trilogy), New Directions, 1940.
  • A dream of Love (three-act play), New Directions, 1948.
  • A Beginning on the Short Story: Notes, Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950.
  • Make Light of It: Collected Stories, Random House, 1950.
  • Autobiography, Random House, 1951, published as The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1967.
  • The Build-Up (novel; part III of White Mule trilogy), Random House, 1952.
  • (Translator with mother, Raquel Helene Williams) Pedro Espinosa, A Dog and the Fever (novella), Shoe String Press, 1954.
  • Selected Essays, Random House, 1954.
  • The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, edited by John C. Thirlwall, McDowell, Obolensky, 1957.
  • I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet, edited by Edith Heal, Beacon Press, 1958.
  • Yes, Mr. Williams:  A Personal Record of My Mother, McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
  • Many Loves and Other Plays:  The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1961.
  • The Farmers' Daughters:  Collected Stories, introduction by Van Wyck Brooks, New Directions, 1961.
  • The William Carlos Williams Reader, edited and introduced by M. L. Rosenthal, New Directions, 1966.
  • Imaginations (contains "Kora in Hell," "Spring and All," The Great American Novel, "The Descent of Winter," and A Novelette and Other Prose), edited by Webster Schott, New Directions, 1970.
  • The Embodiment of Knowledge (philosophy), edited by Ron Loewinsohn, New Directions, 1974.
  • Interviews With William Carlos Williams: "Speaking Straight Ahead," edited and introduced by Linda Welshimer Wagner, New Directions, 1976.
  • A Recognizable Image:  William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists, edited by Bram Dijkstra, New Directions, 1978.
  • William Carlos Williams:  The Doctor Stories, compiled with an introduction by Robert Coles, New Directions, 1984.
  • The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams, New Directions, 1996.
  • Pound/Williams:  Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, edited by Hugh Witemeyer, New Directions, 1996.
  • The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, edited by Christopher MacGowan, New Directions, 1998.
  • William Carlos Williams and Charles Tomlinson:  A Transatlantic Conneciton, edited by Barry Magid and Hugh Witemeyer, P. Lang (New York City), 1998.
  • The Humane Particulars:  The Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 2003.