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Robert, this reminds me that Hulme was the also significant in Pound's aesthetic. On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:41:44 +0100, Hampson R <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Pound also came at contemporary French poetry through F.S. Flint. > > > > > >Robert > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: British & Irish poets [mailto:BRITISH-IRISH- [log in to unmask]] >On Behalf Of David Latane >Sent: 25 August 2009 19:11 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: "Has British Poetry had any significance since Wordsworth?" > > > >Whitman wasn't imitating AT of course--just recognizing Tennyson's >excellence in his line of poetry. > > > >American high modernists like Pound and Eliot didn't come to value >French lit mostly thru Poe--I think more from from Henry James and >writers like Swinburne, Pater, et alia. Swinburne's elegy for >Baudelaire, "Ave atque vale" tells a tale. Pound's notions of the >melopoeic were influenced by Swinburne. Gautier, Mallarme, Baudelaire >were staples of the Yellow Book crowd, and American writers were >attentive. > > > >Sorry for calling Yeats "British" -- though of course as a Protestant >(sort of) citizen of the Empire living some of the time in London where >he published his books he might have called himself that in a weak >moment. The Scottish Thomas Carlyle even upon occasion even writes "we >English." > >David Latane >http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds) > >--- On Tue, 8/25/09, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >I don't know if Whitman's admiring Tennyson necessarily supports the >idea that in some way Whitman's poetry, is Tennysonian, and, >therefore, particularly British influenced. To me it does not appear to >be. It seems to be more akin to folk-song and rural story-telling >traditions. > >Poe's poems may be better in French but his acuity in recognizing >French poetry's value is more important in terms of the American >development of what we call High Modernism. > > > >