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Pictures from Brueghel, collection of poetry by William Carlos Williams, published in 1962 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1963. In this volume Williams transcends the objectivist style of his earlier work, treating poetry as a medium for ideas as well as a means of depicting the physical world. Williams also explored new verse forms in the collection. Wanting to find a rhythm suited to American speech, he experimented with a version of free verse he termed versos sueltos (“loose verses”), which makes use of the triadic stanza and a variable foot measure. ...(100 of 93 words)

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