The Satyrs' Abstract and Brief Chronicle of our Time

This article by Emily Mitchel Wallace is reprinted from the William Carlos Williams Review 9. 1/2, Centennial Issue (Fall 1983): 136–155. In it she traces the history of extracts from a poem designated as "The Satyrs" which subsequently found a place in Williams's "The Yellow Flower" and Paterson. The author then presents a line by line contextualization of Williams's focus on the figure of the Satyrs in Book Five of Paterson to engage with Williams's notions of the artist and the imagination.