> Nothing to see here, move on. Old news warmed over for adolescents.
>
That's a very good definition of Pound.
The site +is+ a out and out racist oasis and Pound is one of their
literary gods.
Pound, like a lot of writers of 1875-1914-ish gestation was caught up
in the myth of Aryan supremacy, of eugenics and the horsemen from the
Northern Steppes who brought down their rule. It derived from many
sources, notably Galton, that very flawed genius, and was popularised
by HH Chamberlain, from where it gained wide currency. Social
Darwinism influenced it too (Darwin did +admire+ without endorsing his
cousin Galton's work.
Psychologically it's linked with attested adolescence, with
self-fascination that fails to establish adult relation to the
feminine: Pound gets stuck somewhere between the Venus and Adonis and
the Rape of Lucrece stages: hence his splatter gun violence, his
sexlessness, his facetiousness.
The Big Boys of male poetry, Roger, are the one's who learn to grow
out of that, like that Mr Shakespeare you so detest.
2008/6/11 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> Nothing to see here, move on. Old news warmed over for adolescents.
>
> It occurs to me that, just like Crowley, it's Pound's fascism that
> makes him interesting. If Pound was a card-carrying member of the
> jesus cult, then he'd be just another untermensch slaving for an
> imaginary friend.
>
> Roger
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:28 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> what Pound and some of the other English language modernists were
>> really about, underneath the rhetoric, have a look at the below, which
>> includes an interesting summary of Vorticism. Have a look at the site
>> it's on too, oh boy
>>
>> http://library.flawlesslogic.com/pound.htm
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "I began to warm and chill
> to objects and their fields"
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
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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
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