Paterson

Name: Paterson
Author: William Carlos Williams

by William Carlos Williams

Modernist poem-sequence about an American city as microcosm of history and language

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William Carlos Williams

American modernist poet who rejected Eliot's European allusiveness in favor of colloquial American speech and precise visual observation. Paterson and Spring and All are his major works.

More by William Carlos Williams

Spring and AllPoetry collection announcing poetry's capacity to make discoveries in the everyday American world
Pictures from BrueghelPoetry collection based on paintings by Pieter Bruegel, exploring visual art through verse
In the American GrainEssays on American history and literature as foundation for artistic and cultural identity
Asphodel That Greeny FlowerLate poem meditation on desire, love, and the marriage bond in old age