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Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems is a 1962 book of poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. It was Williams's final book, for which he posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963. Two previously-published collections of poetry are included: The Desert Music and Other Poems from 1954 and Journey to Love from 1955.Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter , famous for pictures of peasant life. This book opens with the title cycle of ten poems , each based on a Brueghel painting.

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“But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden”

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