Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Absolutely, Dominic, & your commentary seems just.
>
> I've noticed that not one of those of us 'defending' Pound
...and I'm not particularly on the attack here! My problem with Pound is
essentially a problem with my own temptation to fascism, a problem of
finding the very worst in Pound at some level seductive. Identifying the
worst, and tracking its effect throughout the poetry, is necessary for
me in order to separate what I want to keep of Pound from what has to be
rejected. Saying to myself, "but...but...I really, really *like* the
Cantos" won't cut it. I really, really like being told (via aesthetic
ideology, in one or another of its many forms) that there exists a
special class of human being, to which I and only a few others belong,
that is superior to all the rest. There are times when it is correct to
distance oneself from the things one likes.
Dominic
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