The Poetry of William Carlos Williams (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1909
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets
Critical Evaluation:
In the headnote to PATERSON, William Carlos Williams described his view of the function of poetry as a bare-handed answer to Greek and Latin. The deliberate rejection of a received tradition, and reliance on crude native energy of intelligence, are characteristic of a poet who has from the start been aggressively American in his poetic themes and techniques. It is not going too far to state that Williams has in fact defined himself in his poetic identity by a series of rejections: as early as 1910 he had thrown over the sonnet and the iamb as dead...
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