A Companion to Poetic Genre by Martiny Erik

A Companion to Poetic Genre by Martiny Erik

Author:Martiny, Erik
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-08-28T16:00:00+00:00


Poems for the Eye and for the Ear

The attempt to capture the naturalness of everyday speech, and claim it as the American idiom, incited William Carlos Williams to resist abstraction: “When Williams calls Paterson “a reply to Greek and Latin with the bare hands” he is identifying his poem as an attempt to end the split between American writing, speech, and landscape by getting rid of the English and European lamination” (Quartermain 14–15). In the article on “free verse” that he wrote for the first edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poets in 1965, Williams argued that irregularity was the distinctive feature of free verse:



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