Poet & physician
William Carlos Williams
Practised medicine in New Jersey for forty years and wrote poems between patients, insisting on no ideas but in things.
William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946 to 1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my 'case' to work up. It called for a poetry such as I did not know, it was my duty to discover or make such a context on the 'thought.'" Some of his best-known poems, "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow", are reflections on the everyday. Other poems reflect the influence of the visual arts. He, in turn, influenced the visual arts; his poem "The Great Figure" inspired the painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth. Williams was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962).
- Born
- 1883-09-17, Rutherford, New Jersey, USAA Monday
- Died
- 1963-03-04, Rutherford, New Jersey, USAA Monday, aged 79
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Aries
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1883-09-17, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 24°26′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aries | 5°38′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Libra | 20°02′ | Direct |
| Venus | Virgo | 23°32′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 15°06′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 28°30′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Gemini | 10°06′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Virgo | 23°47′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Taurus | 20°56′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Gemini | 1°09′ | Retrograde |
Death Chart
1963-03-04, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 13°24′ | Direct |
| Moon | Cancer | 8°13′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 22°56′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 0°15′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 6°15′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 22°39′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 17°14′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Virgo | 2°48′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 15°35′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Virgo | 10°48′ | Retrograde |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment William Carlos Williams was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.