My guess is that most Americans (who are not writers themselves or literary scholars) who know anything of Williams have encountered a few of his shorter poems in a survey course on modern American poetry--or, if they were serious readers of poetry as undergraduates, they may have been partially submerged in _Paterson_ in an upper-level seminar on the American Long Poem. But has anyone on this list ever seen or taken a course where Williams's _In the American Grain_ was required reading? Or how about _ Journey to Love _?  The works that might broaden and secure his reputation among the American Reading Public don't seem to get much air-time.  
Tim Romano
 
> [...] you'll find an article about the now forgotten Thomas Wolfe which says in
> passing that William Carlos Williams' reputation is fading too. Say it
> ain't so!
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> Jonathan Morse
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