Could all this thing about Pound & Eliot's unacceptable political views be
because these views were promoted or tacitly accepted by
governments/establishments /publishing regimes that picked out poets who
agreed with them, and the "lesser known poets" were well aware of this.
cheers SallyE
Sally Evans
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: Pound/Modernism; was draft
> Hey, congratulations on that.
>
> Then, there's the question of where it (Modernism) began even: Benjamin,
> I think, would argue Paris & Baudelaire, at least as a beginning....
>
> I recall a review in the LRB a few years ago, of a book from Italy on
> Pound, mentioning the stark refusal of so many Brits to admit what Pound
> (& Eliot, etc) did. Then all the rather lesseer known poets there, some
> of whom I've met, who do.
>
> But here in Canada, for people like me, the Pound-WIlliams line, & where
> it led, is what counts, & does so, at least in my case, formally. They
> taught me how to write....
>
> Doug
> On 2-Apr-08, at 11:45 AM, Roger Day wrote:
>
>> No, I'm not disagreeing with you.
>>
>> The timeline looks like Picasso, Braque, Apolinaire then Pound.
>> Talking about mangling facts, but every art history I read that
>> mentioned Apollinaire insisted that he would get the art wrong.
>>
>> Re: assemblage v collage, I read today that assemblage is 3D. And my
>> Glasgow Application reads assemblage throughout ... ah well, one for
>> the interview the week after next.
>>
>> BTB, I just got accepted onto the BA course at Cardiff.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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