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Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, William Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us to live" (Denis Donoghue). Paterson is both a place - the New Jersey city near which Williams lived - and a man: the symbolic figure in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of the Passaic River, whose life…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 1995New Directions Publishing Corporation · 328 pages · 9780811212984
- Other · English · 1992New Directions Pub. Corp. · 311 pages · 9780811212250
- Other · English · 1992Carcanet · 311 pages · 9781857540253
- Other · English · 1963New Directions · 184 pages · 9780811202336
Paterson (N.J.)Description and travelPoetryPoetry of placesCity and town lifeDescriptionPoetry (poetic works by one author)United states, poetry