I just finished a collection of Pound's poetry, and I have

>>8065125
A poet doesn't have to be educated in an academic institution, I'm not sure how that's at all relevant.

>>8065128
but someone as great as Pound had a great education. it's very relevant, since the thread is about him and poets alike.

If you are right, who is a modern poet with no formal education that's of a similar caliber?

I'm saying, I want to sustain his spirit and lineage of poetry, but it's not possible if nobody cares or standards continue to be low.

We just have to find some bright /pol/ users and lock them in a steel box for a few years. Humans are like olives, they give their best when they are crushed.

>>8065125

I haven't thought a lot about this. But I do know that Djvorak would agree with you.

what's so great about him

>>8065134
Well, you seem to care, so why not do it yourself? And self-teaching can be a great education, you're still learning from geniuses, just not in person.

Did you read the Cantos and think that's what any poem by the average college-graduate at the time would be able to write? He learned well beyond the standards of university, and people can and do continue to do so.

ezra pound has a great art of poetry interview with the Paris review where he says he resolved to know more about poetry than any other man by age 30 or something

B A S E D

why the fuck would you think artificially changing university procedure would bring high modernism back