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Thread ID: 19567 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-08-11
2005-08-11 05:05 | User Profile
[B]Ezra Pound[/B]
[url]http://library.flawlesslogic.com/pound.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.ety.com/HRP/rev/epound.htm[/url]
2005-08-11 06:17 | User Profile
For an interesting parallel, compare 30s and 40s [url="http://www.oswaldmosley.com/misc_documents/whatismoney.html"]Pound [/url]with William Langland.
[url="http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol13/drout.html"]http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol13/drout.html[/url]
[url="http://web.archive.org/web/20011127045629/http://dept.english.upenn.edu/%7Elwarner/piers.html/cain.html"]http://web.archive.org/web/20011127045629/http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~lwarner/piers.html/cain.html[/url]
[url="http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/langland.htm"]http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/langland.htm[/url]
One of Pound's very best relatively shorter works: [url]http://pisha.phm.vcu.edu/~formica/ep_hsm.html#I[/url][url="http://pisha.phm.vcu.edu/%7Eformica/ep_hsm.html#Envoi"] [/url]
2005-08-12 01:58 | User Profile
Pound was a great man. He was probably the greatest poet of his time in English. He was so good, many honest and semi-honest Leftists refused to deny his talent. Let it not be forgotten that Pound was also a very kind man, always willing to help a fellow writer down on his luck.
2005-08-12 02:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE=CornCod]Pound was a great man. He was probably the greatest poet of his time in English. [/QUOTE]
That is hard to determine. And if anyone doubts that, bring up the topic with any devotee of Yeats or Eliot.
[QUOTE] He was so good, many honest and semi-honest Leftists refused to deny his talent. [/QUOTE] That is true, though I fear some will overstate certain aspects of career. A lot of people who share his political sympathies may be overlooking his early aestheticism or the humour that permeates a great deal of his work.
2005-08-22 02:55 | User Profile
Yeah, I would think TS Eliot comes close to Pound in greatness. Both were great. I seem to remember that they were both pals.
2005-08-22 04:25 | User Profile
I just order the [I]ABC of Reading[/I]. Lets see if I understand it this time around. I have a problem understanding modern poetry.