Interesting, Kasper. I wonder how connected these things are. Fascism and poetic dogmatism.
Another quote from the Pound: I said in the preface to my Guido Cavalcanti that I believed in an absolute rhythm. I believe that every emotion and every phase of emotion has some toneless phrase, some rhythm-phrase to express it.
Vorticism as I understand it, produced some lively angular art, am largely unfamiliar with the poetical offshoots.
B
> On 12 Jan 2014, at 12:54 am, Kasper Salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I always quite dug Ezra's concretism (though not his fascism), and Imagism
> has had a profound effect on me as a writer. Vorticism was an offshoot of
> his thought that never really opened for me.
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> KS
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>> On 11 January 2014 08:01, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/21/ezra-pound-a-few-donts/
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>> Those wiser or better read than I can say whether Ezra walked his talk.
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>> Bill
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