 |
 |
If pre-adolescents like him, he can't exactly be a poet who withdraws poetry into the academy, as Keilor and others sneeringly claim. Which is really my point. A few of my favourite writers around that time are very problematic. Pound, for instance, or Djuna Barnes, who is very anti-Semitic. Even David Jones professed admiration for Oswald Mosley. I guess moral purity is too much to ask from most artists, as most human beings. All best A On 2/23/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > He was something of a fascist, and his antisemitism is pretty blatant > in some of his poetry. But hell, I don't have much of a sense of > humor, and anyway if preadolescents like him he must be really great. > > Mark > Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com