Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems



Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems is a 1962 book of poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963 for this book posthumously). "Pictures from Brueghel" is also the name of the book's opening poem sequence.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter (1525-1569) famous for pictures of peasant life. This book opens with the title cycle of ten poems (the last poem is in three parts), each based on a Brueghel picture.