> isn't there some uncomfortable discussion on beauty in that
> chapter as well?
"We see To Kalon / Decreed in the marketplace", etc.
I should point out that the passage quoted is Hill's paraphrase of
Pound, not (necessarily) his own position.
Here is an interesting line, which tells you a lot about Hill's own
"late" style:
One of the discoveries of "modernist" poetry has been the technique of
transposing the hopeless "irritation of the jostled", "the gross
silence of hired concealers", into the kind of rapid juxtapositions
and violent lacunae that one finds in the third and fourth poems of
_Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ - phrase callously jostling with phrase,
implication merging into implication ("pli selon pli"), sententiae
curtly abandoned. These become key instruments of "the intelligence at
bay". (pp 94-95).
I like the sound of that.
Dominic
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