[1] It was Williams's final book,[2] for which he posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963.

[3] Two previously-published collections of poetry are included: The Desert Music and Other Poems from 1954 and Journey to Love from 1955.

[4] Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter (born c. 1525–1530, died 1569),[5] 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 painting.

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