Why have you not read "The Cantos" by Ezra Pound yet?
Hemingway wrote: "The best of Pound's writing—and it is in the Cantos—will last as long as there is any literature."
Because
>'Any good I've done has been spoiled by bad intentions—the preoccupation with irrelevant and stupid things,' [he] replied. Then very slowly, with emphasis, surely conscious of Ginsberg's being Jewish: 'But the worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-semitism.
>>9619443
Saved this post about how to get into the cantos
Always meant to just never had time plus scary oriental letters
>>9619459
here, if you're really interested in reading the Cantos, have this.
https://mega.nz/#!QAAhnAKS!5tQFZX-jzRH3inSOg-rZZkWaE-3llEabt0LPG5WOYQE
because literature is dead.
literature departments in academic institutions are the equivalent of respite homes for the geriatric and dementing
>>9619588
p.s. take the red pill
>>9619591
>redpill
you have to go back
I am rereading Greek myths, the Illiad, Odyssey, Sappho and Hesiod. I've got an anthology of European poetry from the troubadours, truvers and middle ages. I have a book of Tao and Confucius, and Dante's Inferno. I have also got The Illuminations.
I will tackle the Cantos, so help me god.
>>9619583
Thanks, anon.
>>9619451
>implying he's talking about his own bad intentions and that of the people around him
>implying he's referring to the cantos
>implying he wasn't senile by that point
and most of all
>implying the worth of work is in anyway related to the personality/life of the author or his own comments on it.
Are you ready to renounce the Aeneid just because Virgil thought it was shit and wanted to burn it?
>>9619443
Because they're garbage. Pound was the definition of a pseud.
If I was impressed by babby tier mathematism I'd be teaching high school calculus not reading poetry.
>>9619669
>Are you ready to renounce the Aeneid just because Virgil thought it was shit and wanted to burn it?
Yes
bump I love Pounding ass tbqh
>>9619797
>houellebecq is pretty good
he's not even literature. he's pop fiction you would buy at an airport to read on a beach whilst on holiday.
>>9619669
>Are you ready to renounce the Aeneid just because Virgil thought it was shit and wanted to burn it?
JUST because Virgil thought it was shit? No.
>>9620683
All you're saying is that he's relevant and successful