Now this is a real question, & the answer will depend. I certainly
read The Wasteland first, but then I read the Cantos, & went on to
Williams, Olson, Duncan. Creeley, Levertov & many Canadians you
probably dont know but who were also so influenced. I'd put Pound way
higher than Eliot as a formal influence for me. I think the jump-cuts,
then, may have entered my mind in TWL, but I really learned to see &
understand them as part of my own tool kit in Pound....
These things are, I admit, & as usual, hard to measure....
Doug
On 25-Apr-10, at 5:45 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote:
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> 3) “The two things innovatory about the Waste Land were jump-cuts
> and register jumping. The first Eliot got from cinema and the
> second Ezra Pound does ever so much better. (Think Canto 1, and
> onwards.)”
>
> He may have got jump-cuts from cinema, but it was new to poetry.
> Pound may do them better, but was his use of them as influential?
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