Do you not see now why I have been inveighing against the sonnet all these
years? And why it has been so violently defended?  Because it is a form
which does not admit of the slightest structural change in its composition.
  -- WCW, The Poem as a Field of Action



At 05:45 AM 2/4/03, Davis, Alex wrote:
>Can anyone direct me to the essay in which Williams discusses the
>non-viability of the sonnet for the modern poet?
>         Apologies for this being posted to the EP list, but I'm at my wits
>end looking for this reference!
>         Cheers,
>         Alex Davis