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William Carlos Williams

Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about Landscapes
		from In This World of 12 Months by Marcella Durand

		Rocket Fantastic [excerpt] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

		A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) by Emily Dickinson

		A Small Hot Town by Collier Nogues

		A Story by Philip Levine

		At the Fishhouses by Elizabeth Bishop

		Balance by Adam Zagajewski

		Coastal Plain by Kathryn Stripling Byer

		For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT by dg nanouk okpik

		from Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons] by Rita Dove

		Hovering at a Low Altitude by Dahlia Ravikovitch

		Inland by Chase Twichell

		Lake Havasu by Dorianne Laux

		One Day by Joseph Millar

		Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

		The Pasture by Robert Frost

		The Philosopher in Florida by C. Dale Young

		This Lime Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

		Useless Landscape by D. A. Powell

		Where I Live by Maxine Kumin

		Winter Morning by William Jay Smith


		Related Prose
		Ekphrasis: Poetry Confronting Art


		Other Ekphrastic Poems
		Purgatorio, Canto X by Dante Alighieri

		The Iliad, Book XVIII, [The Shield of Achilles] by Homer

		All those Attempts in the Changing Room! by Anne Stevenson

		Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke

		Die Muhle Brennt--Richard by Richard Matthews

		In a Blue Wood by Richard Levine

		Joseph Cornell, with Box by Michael Dumanis

		M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine

		Museum Guard by David Hernandez

		Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

		On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art by Frank O'Hara

		On Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats

		On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		Photograph of People Dancing in France by Leslie Adrienne Miller

		Seeing All the Vermeers by Alfred Corn

		Stealing The Scream by Monica Youn

		The Abolition of Reality [Georges Seurat] by Adriano Spatola

		The Family Photograph by Vona Groarke

		The Mad Potter by John Hollander

		The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham

		The Painting by John Balaban

		The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell

		The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden

		To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles by John Keats

		War Photograph by Kate Daniels

		Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat) by Martha Ronk

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Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
by William Carlos Williams

According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings' wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning

From Collected Poems: 1939-1962, Volume II by William Carlos Williams, published by New Directions Publishing Corp. © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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