Well...Pound was a screwball, that's for sure-- no argument from me, there. I don't (myself) think of him as a very successful poet-- some lovely lines...that is all. In a zany sort of way, I think EP was an inspired editor and should have settled for managing some magazine-- writing for amusement, if he wished. The history of American literature could only have been richer for it (he'd have been good at it!).
I don't think of EP as a reliable critic or theorist.
(And Caleb-- maybe I'm nuts...maybe I'm deaf, dumb and blind-- but "The Impulse" doesn't seem like a very good poem at all, to me. It looks and sounds wincingly, embarassingly bad.)
[This message has been edited by MacArthur (edited May 02, 2001).]
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