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Originally Posted by Michael Juster
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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I don't know from orthodoxies on ex-pat fascist cub scouts who also happen to write pretty interesting poetry but as I wade in I find your first proposition to be hard to defend as I find a great deal that I like without even wanting to.
I have been dragging my feet getting around to a close look at Ezra's pounds. The relation to deep error and high hopes here reminds me of the Heidegger problem. I do have to say that your declaration of complete waste is hard to buy.