I thought, for all Pound's classicism, that modernism was all about
telephones and moving pictures and trains and the age of reproduction and
everything. Apollinaire going on about cities and Nazim Hikmet talking
about wire and bridges. Pound putting fridges in Latin poetry. &c.
Not sure that you can really talk about innovation without some knowledge of
what is being innovated _from_, either.
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On 20/1/05 3:44 AM, "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'I'm the kind of critic who Gioia complains is ill equipped to assess
> innovations in contemporary poetry because my tastes are based in part
> on the "antiquarian assumptions" of Modernism, which "reflect a
> culture without radio, talking films, television, videocassettes,
> computers, cell phones, satellite dishes, and the Internet."'
>
> Ex-*cuse* me???
>
> The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster,
> Made with no loss of time,
> A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster
> Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.
Alison Croggon
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