Depends on who you mean by 'lesser known' poets, Sally. Not, for
example (& this is later to a degree), Larkin, who nevertheless fought
against all forms of 'modernism'...
In fact, yes, lesser versions of their politics, including anti-
Semitism, were pretty well entrenched, say between the wars. After
WW2, poets in North America (& some in the UK, but they were often
ignored) found in the formal experiments of Pound, & Williams, & then
'the New American Poets,' a way of writing that made sense to them, &,
although it requires perhaps a form of mental acrobatics to do so,
they also found that they could learn from Pound's writing practice
while absolutely denying his politics....
I think.....
Doug
On 4-Apr-08, at 2:56 AM, Sally Evans wrote:
> 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
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