Torrents of Spring.

WHITE Mule (Book); WILLIAMS, William Carlos, 1883-1963; AESTHETIC movement (Art); POETRY (Literary form); PIETY; ART

The article presents information about the book "White Mule," by Williams Carlos Williams. Williams is too hardy a frontiersman of the word to permit himself the idle luxuries of aestheticism. There are too many things to be seen and touched, too many cadences of living speech to be listened to and recorded and his novel is as busy doing that as his poetry. The author's creative credo is embodied, so instinct with natural piety and pure in its virile tenderness, so alive with sensory detail recreated in language that is swift, bare, tonic and elated by its closeness to the object. Such plain and humble subject matter is characteristic of Williams, who has a passion for the anti-poetic, which he sees as the solvent of the unreal in art.