I agree, Pound was heavily influenced by the Romantics via Frost. Eliot, less so. I rate Pound quite low in the poetic pantheon. His theories of poetry do, however, chime with Wordsworth's, especially regarding vision and accurate description, which Pound, thankfully, didn’t follow to the hilt in his poetry.
I don’t recall using the phrase, which you quote: “nothing else happened”, after the 1920s. In fact I made no reference to that decade at all.
I do get the impression your responses to me are agenda laden. I may be wrong. If so, my apologies. I just sense a vitriol in your responses that seem inappropriate to my modest assertions.
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Not being "any more remarkable" is quite different from "nothing else
happened" after the 1920s (Mayakovsky? Blaise Cendrars? Olson? JH
Prynne? No one has mentioned Beckett - who I think has been the most
influential of all, and is certainly the most written about...) And
it's not particularly radical to point out that the "great man" view
of history elides an awful lot.
I adore High Modernism. But you might as well argue that from this end
of the century, it looks like a continuation of Romanticism, rather
than a break with it, and that Romanticism was the real revolution,
and that we're still dealing with the affetrshocks of that.
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