Paterson II.

PATERSON (Book : Williams); WILLIAMS, William Carlos, 1883-1963; MYTH; EMOTIONS; POETRY (Literary form); CIVILIZATION

The article presents information about the book "Paterson," by William Carlos Williams. The book is an attempt to write the American poem. It depends on the American myth, a myth that is seldom absent from literature, part of power, and part of hubris and deformity. The subjects of great poetry have usually been characters and the passions, a moral straggle that calls a man's whole person into play. "Paterson" is not the tragedy of the outcast but the tragedy of civilization. It is a book in which the best readers, as well as the simple reader, are likely to find everything.