If you get hold of Pound's essays, Bill, you will find some very useful thinking about writing. And the poems tend to suggest he knew what he was doing there. We cannot ignore ow he went wrong politically, but many of us found his intuitions about poetry helpful. I always brought his 'Don'ts' to my students, among many other statements on poetics by other writers...
Doug
On Jan 11, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Interesting, Kasper. I wonder how connected these things are. Fascism and poetic dogmatism.
>
> Another quote from the Pound: I said in the preface to my Guido Cavalcanti that I believed in an absolute rhythm. I believe that every emotion and every phase of emotion has some toneless phrase, some rhythm-phrase to express it.
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> Vorticism as I understand it, produced some lively angular art, am largely unfamiliar with the poetical offshoots.
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> B
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>> On 12 Jan 2014, at 12:54 am, Kasper Salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I always quite dug Ezra's concretism (though not his fascism), and Imagism
>> has had a profound effect on me as a writer. Vorticism was an offshoot of
>> his thought that never really opened for me.
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>> KS
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>>> On 11 January 2014 08:01, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/21/ezra-pound-a-few-donts/
>>>
>>> Those wiser or better read than I can say whether Ezra walked his talk.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
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