This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS Peace on Earth Postlude First Praise Homage The Fool's Song From "The Birth of Venus," Song Immortal Mezzo Forte An After Song Crude Lament The Ordeal The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven Portent Con Brio Ad Infinitum Translations from the Spanish, "El Romancero" Hic Jacet Contemporania To wish Myself Courage About the Author "William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine with a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician" but excelled at both." -- Wikipedia