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In over my head: Ezra Pound? 2016-10-19 06:15:39 Post No. 8635139
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I've read Pynchon, I've read Joyce; you know, the folks that busy themselves with referencing millions of things in 2 paragraphs. But starting in on Pound I'm feeling overwhelmed. Anyone else working through the cantos willing to share some advice?
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find a poet who is actually worth your time
Pound was obtuse but he also said a lot of incredibly stupid things. he was obscure but also very shallow
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ezra pound was held by americans in an iron cage for his beliefs, if it is a good reason to read him i dunno
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>>8635182
mental institutions are one of the shameful legacies of that era. Pound should have been executed as a traitor to his country, not locked up as a lunatic.
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>>8635188
no, not as a mental patient, it was in a concentration camp
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>>8635139
Try touching Wallace Stevens first
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>>8635139
read keats instead. pound was a hack.
t. born-again romantic, ex-poundian
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>>8635631
Tsk.
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Read his early writings first. Don't dive into the cantos.
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>>8635139
OP ignore the retards in this thread. Do yourself a favor and purchase the Companion to the Cantos by Caroll Terrell.
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520082878
I used this and it helped immensely.
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