These videos don't move me. I think of Pound's work as mostly falling into three categories: 1) his early poems--generally pretentious, often laughably anachronistic, imitations of poems of the past; 2) his "translations"---primarily his racist pillaging of the great Chinese shih tradition, although he didn't really know Propertius either; and 3) his later incoherent poems--which are invariably infused with the venom and incoherence of his loathesome worldview.
I know that's heresy for modernists, so prepare the stake and gather the logs. The Ezperor has no clothes--that's what I believe.
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