William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams was born on September 17th, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey. Before realizing his ability of writing, he studied to become a doctor and became a pediatrician. Williams is most famous not for the way he writes, but for what he writes about. He was the first poet, and author, to come up with the crazy idea of writing about everyday things, and not the same old things that are in …showed first 75 words of 505 total…

…showed last 75 words of 505 total…Williams's work is the basis of poetry in modern day, and mostly everyone, if not everyone, writes using his example. Writing about everyday life in natural form lets people express what they really feel, and not have to worry about a special form. He was a tremendous influence and fore in modern day literature, and the world would be very different if he had not picked up a pen, and written what he really felt.