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For criticism, the important question is: what criteria are we to apply in judging Williams’s poems? Many American poets, of the past two decades in particular, have signified their approval of his work either by imitating it or advancing it. Critical difficulty is encountered not so much in characterizing his discoveries concerning ‘the poem’ as in deciding which among his typical poems are successful, and good, poems, and why this is so.
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Doyle, C. (1982). Conclusion. In: William Carlos Williams and the American Poem. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16839-2_14
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