All very tongue in cheek, as I know you realise, Rob, but the man with no name and the Cantos, check that out! Gunslinger (!!) 2008/12/13 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>: > Roses, roses all the way ... > >> a man with no name >> and Cythera to come > > Jeezus, dave, only you could link Clint Eastwood to Canto 1!!! > > And following ... > > Pass me that panther, I'm a hungry man ... > > <g> > > Dowson (L.) > > {{Having loved Cynthia in my fashion ...}} > >> >> dew descends >> on the hushed tent of night >> >> credit rates Old Possum > > Me, I'd bet on a Suffi mystic in the background somewhere ... > > Or da pope? > > Anarchy and old Knight, nah? > >> 2008/12/13 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>: >>> >>> From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 9:31 PM >>> Subject: Two Excerpts from the Pound/Fenollosa Noh >>> >>> >>>> Two Excerpts from The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan by Ezra Pound and >>>> Ernest Fenollosa >>>> >>>> i >>>> >>>> A moon hangs clear on the pine-bough. >>> >>> Pound was more succinct at times. >>> >>> Consider, for instance ... >>> >>> Spring ... >>> Too long ... >>> Golgotha ... >>> >>> Spanish Christian minimalist poetry, but. >>> >>> R. >>> >>> {Robert Graves' greatest objection to Pound was that he boxed badly, and >>> had >>> sweaty palms -- is this enough to condemn a Major Modernist Poet? >>> >>> Just wondering. >>> >>> C3P0} >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> David Bircumshaw >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk >> > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk