Who is William Carlos Williams? If someone had asked me this a month ago I would have looked puzzled, but now I can say with confidence that Williams Carlos Williams is a revolutionary figure in American poetry. William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, NJ Williams was the first of two children, his father was of English descent and his mother was Puerto Rican with French, Dutch, Spanish and Jewish ancestry. Williams is later quoted as saying a few words about his ancestry: "Of mixed ancestry, I felt from early childhood that America was the only home I could ever call my own. I felt it was expressly founded for me, personally, and which was to be my first business in life to own it.” His love of America became an overarching theme in his poetry. Williams spent much of his youth in Rutherford, where his family surrounded him with a rich background in the arts and literary Education was always an important factor in Williams' life a public school in Rutherford, New Jersey until 1897, when he was sent to study at the “Chateau de Lancy” near Geneva, Switzerland, then he was sent to study. at the “Lycee Condorcet” in Paris, France, for two years he returned to America to study at the Horace Mann School in New York City where he graduated. His travels at such a young age improved his poetry later in life. Starting in 1902, Williams entered the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and his time at Penn was a critical point in Williams' life; it is here that he made friends with Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle (HD) and the painter Charles Demuth. These friendships are one of his main support systems that awaken his passion for poetry..... . half of the card ......unist. This alleged pro-communism led to him being treated for clinical depression. In the back of Williams' life he always had a series of setbacks that eventually led him to the recognition of his depression. In his final years Williams underwent treatment for clinical depression in a psychiatric hospital in 1953. But before then his health had played a role in his major change in mood displayed through his works. In the late 1940s he suffered “the first of numerous heart attacks and strokes, which would haunt him for the rest of his life.” Williams later lamented the effects of a particularly severe stroke in 1952 "That was the end. I was done with life." Surprisingly enough his devotion to poetry did not suffer in the slightest. "An American form of poetry whose subject matter centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of ordinary people