Paterson by William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan - 9781800173613

Carcanet Press Ltd

PatersonAuthor(s): William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Carcanet Classics\nISBN-13: 9781800173613, 978-1800173613\nSynopsis\nWilliam Carlos Williams [tel], like his friend Ezra Pound, never finished his magnum opus, a poem as impossibly ambitious as the Cantos, but richly invested in the present world. It was published over a period of a dozen years [tel] in five books, the sixth left incomplete. The first book was welcomed by the great American poet-critic Randall Jarrell. He called it 'the best thing Williams has ever written' 'how wonderful and unlikely that this extraordinary mixture of the most delicate lyricism of perception and feeling with the hardest and homeliest actuality should ever have come into being! There has never been a poem more American.'\n\nHe was disappointed with the books that followed. But he was expecting an American epic while Williams was delivering something more origin.