Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

by William Carlos Williams

Blurb

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.

First Published

1962

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