ABSTRACT
May 1919, vol. vi, 76–8
Williams (1883–1963), American poet, was a contemporary of Ezra Pound at the University of Pennsylvania. They met during the academic year 1902–3 when Williams was a student of dentistry, though subsequently he changed to medicine which he was to practise in Rutherford, New Jersey. Williams had a life-long antipathy towards Eliot's poetry, a feeling intensified by ‘The Waste Land’, his reaction to which he described in his ‘Autobiography’ (1951). In ‘I Wanted to Write a Poem’ (1958) Williams recalled that he read ‘Prufrock’ during the composition of ‘Kora in Hell’ (1920). This review was incorporated into the Prologue to that work.
