>
> On Nov 24, 2004, at 7:41 PM, Robert Heffernan wrote:
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>> Re Eliot:
>>
>> I think Eliot was abandoned (particularly in America) for Pound and
>> (perhaps more importantly) Williams.
>
> Oh, no. The line of Eliot was not abandoned -- it carried straight on
> through the new critics & their poetry to the confessionals, and is
> the essential genealogy of official American verse culture. The Pound-
> Williams line is the unacknowledged line that goes to Olson, Duncan
> and the later generations. Best piece of analysis on this I know is
> David Antin's essay in iossue 1 of Boundary2, somewhere around 1973.
> Still worth reading.
>
> Pierre
>
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some
great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their
heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by
a downright moron." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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For updates on readings, etc. check my current events page:
http://albany.edu/~joris/CurrentEvents.html
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Pierre Joris
244 Elm Street
Albany NY 12210
h: 518 426 0433
c: 518 225 7123
o: 518 442 40 85
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.albany.edu/~joris/
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