speaking English and Spanish, and he was sent along with his brother, Edgar, to the Horace Mann School in Manhattan; for a year, while their father was traveling on business in South America, the boys attended an international school in Switzerland. Williams would send his own sons to this school, the Château de Lancy, thirty years later.No other American modernist poet--not Pound, not Wallace Stevens, not T.S. Eliot--was so worldly by the age of 18. No other American writer's declaration that "Europe is nothing to us" is so self-dramatizing. As Pound understood, Williams nurtured a first-generation American's obsession with the idea of an indigenously American art; and in contrast to Eliot, whose family had lived in Massachusetts for centuries, Williams needed to acquire the New World, not escape it.
from The Nation: This Is Just to Say: On William Carlos Williams
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