Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

< 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).

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.

table of contents

 * "Pictures from Brueghel"
 * "The Exercise"
 * "Song" (beauty is a shell...)
 * "The Woodthrush"
 * "The Polar Bear"
 * "The Loving Dexterity"
 * "The Chrysanthemum"
 * "3 Stances" (I: Elaine; II: Erica; III: Emily)
 * "Suzy"
 * "Paul"
 * "Fragment" (as for him who...)
 * "To a Woodpecker"
 * "Song" (I'd rather read an account...)
 * "The Children"
 * "The Painting"
 * "The Stone Crock"
 * "He Has Beaten about the Bush Long Enough"
 * "Iris"
 * "Song" (you are forever April...)
 * "The Dance"
 * "Jersey Lyric"
 * "To the Ghost of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings"
 * "To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday"
 * "Metric Figure"
 * "The Intelligent Sheepman and the New Cars"
 * "The Italian Garden"
 * "Poem" (The rose fades...)
 * "A Formal Design"
 * "Bird"
 * "The Gossips"
 * "Exercise No. 2"
 * "The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image"
 * "The Fruit"
 * "Short Poem" (You slapped my face...)
 * "Poem" (on getting a card...)
 * "To Flossie"
 * "Portrait of a Woman at Her Bath"
 * "Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot" (I:Exercise in Timing; II: Histology; III: Perpetuum Mobile; IV: The Blue Jay; V: The Existentialist's Wife; VI: A Salad for the Soul; VII: Chloe; VIII: The Cocktail Party; IX: The Stolen Peonies)
 * "The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo"
 * "15 Years Later"
 * "The Title"
 * "Mounted as an Amazon"
 * "The Snow Begins"
 * "Calypsos"
 * "An Exercise"
 * "Three Nahuatl Poems"
 * "Sonnet in Search of an Author"
 * "The Gift"
 * "The Turtle"
 * "Sappho, Be Comforted"
 * "To My Friend Ezra Pound"
 * "Tapiola"
 * "Poem" (The plastic surgeon who has...)
 * "Heel & Toe to the End"
 * "The Rewaking"