A different sense of what 'content' means, yes, but a lack of it? I
don't think so; indeed, one of the key aspects of our discussion of
Pound had to do with our turning away from much of his content. While
recognizing how much his 'experiments' allowed for an engagement with
other kinds of 'content'...
I am pretty sure I haven't been writing pro-fascist open form verse...
(whatever else it might have wrong with it).
Doug
On 12-May-08, at 1:13 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I think it worth observing that the piece reminds me that the roots of
> English language modernism are in the culturally segregated
> aestheticism of the 1890s - this is where the looking-down superiority
> of Pound, Eliot and Stevens originates, and that the fetish of
> 'experiment' divorced from content reinforces that.
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