Oh, at the time, the modernists were definitely not 'establishment,'
although some of them became so later on. Roger's right about that.
And I'd say that in the US, some of those writers who took all they
could from Pound etc, were left wing, think the Objectivists. then
some of the later ones in the 50s onward.
So that ability to pull formal experimentation & what it meant away
from the fascist ideology of Pound, & others, is always possibly
there. I know many of the poets I shared a poetics with made these
moves...
Doug
On 4-Apr-08, at 11:16 AM, Sally Evans wrote:
> The strange thing about early twentieth century is that the
> developments in technique and practice which were distinctly non
> conformist came from the more respected writers - the establishment
> itself became disjointed
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