Paterson (poem) caught Williams' attention for its use, with a technical skill that seemed to rival Pound's in "The Cantos", of such diverse and seemingly prosaic materials as notes from a congressional investigation, an X-ray report and a physician's testimony on cross-examination. He wrote to fellow poet Louis Zukofsky, "I've begun to think about poetic form again. So much has to be thought out and written out there before we can have any solid criticism and consequently well-grounded work here." In 1944, Williams read a poem by Byron Vazakas in "Partisan Review" that would help lead him to solutions in form and
Epistolary poem separate exchanges of paired epistles, one each from a heroic lover to his absent beloved and from the heroine in return. A number of epistolary poems were published as separate works in England during the so-called "Long Eighteenth Century", i.e., about 1688 - 1815. Examples of epistolary poems include: Epistolary poem An epistolary poem, also called a verse letter or letter poem, is a poem in the form of an epistle or letter. Epistolary poems date at least as early as the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 or 18 AD), who wrote the "Heroides" ("The Heroines") or "Epistulae