''Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems'' is a 1962 book of poems by the American

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poet/writer

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

. It was Williams's final book, for which he

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won the

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...

in 1963. Two previously-published collections of poetry are included: ''

The Desert Music and Other Poems ''The Desert Music and Other Poems'' was a 1954 Random House book collecting 1949-54 poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. It is now collected, along with '' Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems'' (1962) and '' J ...

'' from 1954 and ''

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'' from 1955.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre ...

was a

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painter (born c. 1525–1530, died 1569), famous for pictures of peasant life. This book opens with the title cycle of ten poems (the last poem is in three parts), each based on a Brueghel painting.

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1962 poetry books American poetry collections Poetry by William Carlos Williams New Directions Publishing books {{Poetry-collection-stub