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A DECADE OF DISCOVERY, 19 5 3-19 63CHECKLIST OF CRITICISM, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' POETRY

LINDA WELSHIMER WAGNERWith the publication of PatersonIV in 1950, criticism about the poetryof William Carlos Williams increasedin quantity and, usually, in validity.Much earlier commentary had cen-tered on Williams' subject matter,avoiding his technique for lack ofterminology. Early criticism was also

often invalidated as Williams contin-used his poetic experimentation, inthe hope of finding a means to re-cre-ate his contemporary locale in hispoem. Most critics today think thatWilliams achieved his goal most suc-cessfully in his last four books-TheDesert Music, Journey to Love, Pat-erson V, and Pictures from Brueghel.Many of the items in this checklistdeal either with these major books orwith Williams' poetry as a whole.Adams, Phoebe. "Pictures from Brneghel,"Atlaintic (August 1962), 145.Aik


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Deutsch, Babette. Poetry in Our Time. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1956.Dickey, James. "First and Last Things,"Poetry, CIII, No. 5 (February 1964), 321-322.Donnell, Richard. "The Yachts," Explicator,XVII (May 1959), Item 52.Donoghue, Denis. "For a Redeeming Lan-guage," Twentieth Century, CLXIII (June1958), 532-542.Donohue, H. E. F. "An Occasion for Tre-mendous Music," The Massachusetts Re-

view, III, No. 2 (Winter 1962), 338-344.Dudek, Louis. "A Note on Metrics," Delta,V (October 1958).Eberhart, Richard. "Prose, Poetry and theLove of Life," Saturday Review, XXXVII(November 20, 1954), 20.Eckman, Frederick. Cobras and Cockle Shells:Modes in Recent Poetry. Flushing, NewYork: The Sparrow Press, 1958.............. "In Memoriam: William Carlos Wil-liams," Chicago Literary Times, II (April,1963), p. 1.Edelstein, Sanford. "Essential Speech," Per-spective, VI, No. 4 (Autumn 1953), 224-229.

(Emerson, Richard Wirtz.) "Books and Opin-ion," Golden Goose, No. 7 (April 1954),133-135.Engel, Bernard F. "Dr. Williams as Exhorter:The Meaning of Americanism," Papers of

the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts,and Letters, XLVII (1962), 579-586.............. "The Verse Line of Dr. Williams;A Fact of the Thing Itself," Ibid., XLVI(1961), 665-670.Fiscalini, Janet. "Poet Americanus," TheCommonweal, LXX (September 18, 1959),519-521.Foster, John Lawrence. "The Modern Ameri-can Long Poem," unpublished dissertation,University of Michigan, 1961.Fowler, Albert. "Shopping for Poetry in Pat-erson," Approach, XXXVIII (Winter,1961), 31-33.Fowler, Helen. "Notes and Cross References,"Approach, XLI (Fall 1961), 43-44.Franklyn, A. Fredric. "The Truth and thePoem," Trace, XII, No. 48 (Spring 1963),32, 79-83.Garrigue, Jean. "America Revisited," Poetry,XC (August 1957), 315-320.Goodman, Paul. "Between Flash and Thunder-stroke," Poetry, LXXXVII (March 1956),366-370.............. "The International Word," The Na-tion, CXCIV, No. 16 (April 21, 1962),3 57-360.

Grigsby, Gordon. "The Genesis of Paterson,"College English, XXIII, .No. 4 (January1962), 277-281............. "The Modern Long Poem: Studiesin Thematic Form," unpublished disserta-tion, University of Wisconsin, 1960.Hartung, Charles. "A Poetry of Experience,"University of Kansas City Review, XXV(October 1958), 65-69.Hirschman, Jack. "William Carlos Williams,"S-henandoah, XIV, No. 4 (Summer 1963),3-10.

Hoffman, Frederick J. The Twenties: Ameri-can Writing in the Postwar Decade. NewYork: The Viking Press, 1955.... . . "W i am s and H is Mu se " Poetry ,LXXXIV (April 1954), 23-27.Holmes, J. Writing Poetry. Boston: TheWriter, Inc., 1960.Ignatow, David. Introduction to WilliamCarlos Williams: A Memorial Chapbook,The Beloit Poetry Journal, XIV, No. 1(Fall 1963), 1-2.............. "Williams' Influence: Some SocialAspects," Chelsea, XIV (January 1964),154-161.Jacobsen, Josephine. "Legacy of Three Poets,"The Commonweal, LXXVIII (May 10,1963), 189-192.Jarrell, Randall. "50 Years of American Po-etry," Prairie Schooner, XXXVII, No. 1(Spring 1963), 1-27.............. Poetry and the Age. New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.Kennedy, Raymond A. "'Let's to Music,Hubert!': An Impertinesnt Piece," TheMassachusetts Review, III, No. 2 (Winter1962), 336-338.Kenner, Hugh. "Columbus Log-Book," Po-etry, XCII (June 1958), 174-178.............. "The Drama of Utterance," TheMassachusetts Review, III, No. 2 (Winter1962), 328-330.... ... "A Note on The Great AmericanNovel," Perspective, VI, No. 4 (Autumn1953), 177-182............. Gnomon. New York: McDowell,Obolensky, 1958.............. "To Measure Is All We Know," Po-etry, XCIV (May 1959), 127-132.............. "William Carlos Williams: In Me-moriam," National Review (March 26,1963), 237.Kerr, Walter. "Review of Paterson II," Imagi,V, No. 1 (1954), 10.Koclh, Vivienne. "Williams: The Social Mask,"Poetry, LXXX (May 1954), 89-95. Seealso her book, William Carlos Williams,New Directions, 1950.

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Koehler, Stanley. "The Art of Poetry VI:William Carlos Williams," The Paris Re-view, VIII, No. 32 (Summer-Fall 1964),110-151.Kunitz, Stanley. "Frost, Williams, and Com-pany," Harper's,CCXXV (October 1962),100-103.Lamott,Kenneth. "Pilgrimage o Rutherford,"Contact (July 1963), 41-43.Levertov, Denise. "William Carlos Williams,"The Nation, CXCVI (March 16, 1963),230.Lowell, Robert. "William Carlos Williams,"Hudson Review, XIV (Winter 1961-1962),530-536.Martz, Louis. "The Unicorn in Paterson:William CarlosWilliams,"Thought, XXXV(Winter, 1960), 537-554.Massie, Lillian. "Narrative and Symbol inPaterson," unpublished dissertation, Uni-versity of Arkansas, 1955.McCandless,J. H. "Christ and the Critic,"Approach, XLI (Fall 1961), 36-41.McCormick, John. "Poet and Anti-Poet,"Western Review, XIX, No. 1 (Autumn1954), 65-68.Mills, Barriss. "The Method of Paterson,"Approach, XXXVIII (Winter 1961), 23-26.Nash, Ralph. "The Use of Prosein Paterson,"Perspective, VI, No. 4 (Autumn 1953),191-199.Olson, Charles. "PatersonV," EvergreenRe-view, II, No. 9 (Summer 1959), 220-221.Ostrom, Alan B. "The Poetic World of Wil-liam Carlson Williams,"unpublisheddisser-tation, Columbia University, 1959.Palmer, J. E. "7 Voices, 7 Styles," The Se-wanee Review, LXIII (Spring 1955), 287-296.Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Continuity ofAmerican Poetry. Princeton, New Jersey:Princeton University Press, 1961.Pearson, Norman Holmes. "The Farmer'sDaughters and Many Loves," Yale Review,LI (Winter 1962), 329-332.

............. "Williams,New Jersey," The Liter-ary Review, I (Autumn 1957), 29-36.Quinn, Sister M. Bernetta. "The Desert Mu-sic," Imagi, VI, No. 4 (1955).............. The MetamorphicTradition in Mod-ern Poetry. New Brunswick, New Jersey:Rutgers University Press, 1955.............. "William Carlos Williams: A Testa-ment of Perpetual Change," Publicationsof the Modern LanguageAssociation, LXXJune 1955), 292-322.Racey, Edgar F., Jr. "Pound and Williams:The Poet as Renewer," Bucknell Review,XI, No. 2 (March 1963), 21-30.

Rexroth, Kenneth. "The Farmer'sDaughtersand Many Loves," The New Leader (No-vember 12, 1961), 29.............. "The I nfluen c e of French Poetry onAmerican" and "A Public Letter for Wil-liam Carlos Williams' Seventy-fifth Birth-day" in Assays. Norfolk, Conn.: New Di-rections, 1961, pp. 143-174 and 202-205.............. "A Poet Sums Up," New York TimesBooks (March 28, 1954), 5.Rosenthal,M. L. The ModernPoets: A Criti-cal Introduction. New York: Oxford Uni-versity Press, 1960............. "Salvo for William Carlos Williams,"The Nation, CLXXXVI (May 31, 1958),497.............. "William Carlos Williams and SomeYoung Germans," The Massachusetts Re-view, IV (Winter 1963), 337-341.

Roth, Russell et al. "American Letters: ASymposium," Western Review, XVII(1954), 277-299.Schneps, Maurice. "William Carlos Williams:A Dialogue," Orient/West, VI, No. 7(1961), 77-82.Scott, W. T. and William Bittner. "WilliamCarlos Williams: Muse or Patron Saint?"Saturday Review, XL (September 7, 1957),13-14.Sereni, Vittorio. "Una proposta di lettura,"Aut Aut, Nos. 61-62 (Winter 1961), 110-118.Shapiro, Karl. "Is Poetry an American Art?"College English, XXV, No. 6 (March1964), 395-405.............. "You Call These Poems?" AntiochReview (Summer 1962), 162.Eiegel, Eli. "T. S. Eliot and William CarlosWilliams: A Distinction," University ofKansas City Review, XXII (October 1955),41-43.Slate, Joseph Evans. "William Carlos Wil-liams' Image of America," unpublished dis-sertation, University of Wisconsin, 1957.Solt, Mary Ellen. "William Carlos Williams:Idiom and Structure," The Massachusetts

Review, III, No. 2 (Winter 1962), 304-318............ "William Carlos Williams: Poems inthe American Idiom," Folio, XXV, No. 1(1960), 3-28.Southworth, James G. More Modern Ameri-can Poets. New York: The Macmillan Co.,1954.Spencer, Benjamin T. "Doctor Williams'American Grain," Tennessee Studies in Lit-erature, VIII (1963), 1-16.Stephens, Alan. "Dr. Williams and Tradi-tion," Poetry, CI, No. 5 (February 1963),360-362.

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Sutton, Walter. "Dr. Williams' Paterson andthe Quest for Form," Criticism, II (Sum-mer 1960), 242-259.............. "A Visit with William Carlos Wil-liams," Minnesota Review, I (1961), 309-324.

Thirlwall, John C. "The Lost Poems of Wil-liam Carlos Williams" or "The Past Re-captured," New Directions 16 (1957), 3-45.............. "Ten Years of a New Rhythm,"closing note to Pictures from Brueghel.Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1962.Pages 183-184.............. "Two Cities: Paris and Paterson,"The Massachusetts Review, III, No. 2 (Win-ter 1962), 284-291.............. "William Carlos Williams as Cor-respondent," The Literary Review, I, No. 1(Autumn 1957), 13-28.............. "William Carlos Williams' Paterson:The Search for the Redeeming Language-A Personal Epic in Five Parts," New Di-rections 17 (1961), 252-310.Thompson, Frank. "The Symbolic Structureof Paterson," Western Review, XIX (1955),285-293.

Tredant, Paul. "New York: Les poetes meur-ent aussi," Nouvelles litteraires (March 14,1963), 6.Turnbull, Gael. "A Visit to WCW: Septem-ber, 1958," The Massachusetts Review, III,No. 2 (Winter 1962), 297-300.Van Duyn, Mona. "To 'Make Light of It' asFictional Technique," Perspective, VI, No.4 (Autumn 1953), 230-238.Wagner, Linda Welshimer. "Metaphor andWilliam Carlos Williams," The UniversityReview, XXI (Autumn, 1964), 43-48.

............. "Pictures from Brueghel and Wil-liam Carlos Williams," American Weave,XXVII, No. 2 (Winter 1963-1964), 37-39.............. The Poems of William Carlos Wil-liams: A Critical S,tudy. Wesleyan Univer-sity Press: Middletown, Connectiout, 1964.............. "Pulitzer and Williams," South At-lantic Bulletin, XXVIII, No. 2 (March1963), 3-4.............. "Two Faces of Janus," Etchings inProse and Verse (Fall 1963), 14-16.............. "William Carlos Williams," TheFiddlehead,No. 59 (Winter 1964), 68-72.............. "William CarlosWilliams and Tradi-tion: An Exercise in Analysis," The EnglishRecord, XIV, No. 2 (1963), 33-35.... "W am Car os W ams: G ant "CollegeEnglish,XXV, No. 6 (March 1964),425-430.

............. "William Carlos Williams: ClassicAmerican Poet," Renascence, XVI, No. 3(Spring 1964), 115-125.Wells, Henry. "Paterson V," Voices, No. 169(Summer 1959), 49-52.Whigham, Peter. "William Carlos Williams,"Agenda, III, No. 2 (1963), 25-32.Willingham,John R. "Partisanof the Arts,"The Nation, CLXXX (January 22, 1955),78.Zabriskie,George. "The Geographyof Pater-son," Perspective, VI, No. 4 (Autumn,1953), 201-216.Zukofsky, Louis. "'The Best Human Value,'"The Nation, CLXXXVI (May 31, 1958),500-502.............. "An Old Note on William CarlosWilliams," The MassachusettsReview, III,No. 2 (Winter 1962), 301-302.

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