A bit belatedly picking up Peter Riley's point about
'barren wildernesses'.
Its certainly easy to look at works like Finnegan's Wake
or, for that matter, HWWR and think 'how can this be taken any further?
It's gone to the extreme' - to see them as an emphatic endpoint.
But maybe another approach is
to say what Bunting said about the Cantos: I think he likened
Pound to Edmund Spenser - laying down techniques, methods,
approaches, many of which may not be understood by
contemporaries, but which form a rich seam for later
writers to mine.
The more I get into HWWR the more that it seems to
be this type of work. As some listmembers have already
pointed out, it may well influence future writers in ways
we can't foresee.
Alan
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