Modern American Poetry

(^110) Thomas R. Whitaker
possible to date the manuscript versions of other poems published in the 1930s, many
other revisions of chronology might have to be made.

2. Babette Deutsch, Poetry in Our Time(New York, 1952), p. 102.


3. Louis Zukofsky, “An Old Note on WCW,” Massachusetts Review,III (Winter,
   1962), 302.


4. Koch, William Carlos Williams,p. 50.


5. Louis Zukofsky, A Test of Poetry(New York, 1948), p. 101.


6. MS.


7. “The Somnambulists,” transition,No. 18 (November, 1929), 148.


8. See Koch, William Carlos Williams,p. 58. With a few deletions (and with the
   inaccurate heading “Not previously published”) the prose passages from “The Descent of
   Winter” are now included in Selected Essays,pp. 62–74, as “Notes in Diary Form.”


9. “The Descent of Winter,” Exile,No. 4 (Autumn, 1928), 52–53. In MS, “Fairfield”
   is specified as Garfield, New Jersey.


10. “The Descent of Winter,” Exile,No. 4, p. 53.


11. MS.


12. Predilections,p. 136.


13. Zukofsky, “American Poetry 1920–1930,” Symposium,II (January, 1931), 83.


14. Idem.


15. MS.


16. MS.