Bob, I agree.
There seems some confusion regarding the terms being used here. Strictly speaking the jump-cut originated in cinema, so it is difficult to see how it could have existed in poetry before the invention of film.
Robin has mentioned various uses of ellipsis and elision in early poetic works to argue for the presence of jump-cuts retrospectively. This is not a strong position to insist on, in my view. Film theorists know precisely what a jump-cut is, its origination and its specific uses.
Original Message:
Nothing like that (certainly not in any consistent way as in Ashbery) in
Shakespeare or any poet I know of before Eliot/Pound. If there were,
how is it The Wasteland had such a reputation for incomprehensibility
for so long.
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