ound. In 1902 Williams was accepted into the dental school at the University of Pennsylvania. He soon transferred into the medical school, where he would meet and befriend fellow popular poets of his time; Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), and also popular artist Charles DeMuth. As he bided his time working in hospitals in New York, Germany, and New Jersey, Williams wrote his poetry, and even took up the art of painting, although somewhat failingly, then finally publishing his first book of poetry in 1909, entitled "Poems" (Rosenthal). Due to his immense work within the medical ranks, the verbiage of his profession spilled over into his writing. This compassion that he possessed for both his patients and for
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