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William Carlos Williams’s “Paterson” 231

and William Carlos Williams(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1975). This work is most
valuable in interweaving and relating the lives and works of the three poets.

6. Quoted in Mike Weaver, William Carlos Williams: The American Background
   (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), p. 120.


7. Ibid., p. 201.


8. Quoted in John C. Thirlwall, “William Carlos Williams’ Paterson,” New Directions
   17, p. 263.


9. Ibid., p. 254.


10. Ibid., pp. 263–64.


11. Ibid., p. 281.


12. Walt Whitman, Complete Poetry and Selected Prose(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
    1959), pp. 424–25. Hereafter cited as CPSP.


13. Ibid., p. 349.


14. Quoted in Thirlwall, “William Carlos Williams’ Paterson,” p. 264.


15. Whitman, CPSP,p. 47.


16. Quoted in Joel Conarroe, William Carlos Williams’ Paterson (Philadelphia:
    University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970), p. 55.


17. Quoted in John C. Thirlwall, “William Carlos Williams’ Paterson,” pp. 276–77.


18. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick,ed. Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker (New
    York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967), p. 169.


19. Ezra Pound, The Cantos(New York: New Directions, 1972), pp. 520–21.


20. Whitman, CPSP,pp. 52, 56.


21. Robert Lowell, “William Carlos Williams,” William Carlos Williams: A Collection of
    Critical Essays,ed. J. Hillis Miller (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966), p. 158.


22. John Berryman, The Dream Songs(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969), p.


23.