The classics do not have a wide circulation. This is not classical poetry. It is modern. The modernist movements — of which imagism was one…
Tag: Ezra Pound
I don’t read Whitman. He sucks, but Pound is a pimp. Pound is the better poet, while Whitman, like many of his generation, spends too…
There is a referendum about Cannabis going on as part of the election. A lot of the great and good support it, along with the…
One of the troubles of reading a lot, writing a lot and spending most of your time in your brain is that it does not…
The Virginal was a musical instrument, but for most of the last two thousand years there was but one Virgin, and that was Mary. Pound…
A quick note to the craftsman, those who hate will use their whimpers to destroy, abrade, and remove anything graceful, beautiful and with colour. We…
Most people date this as 1919, and then concentrate on the longer Poems Pound Wrote. Pound was a genius, and like such, he knew his…
Why is Pound using a traditional form of poetry: and why for this time? We have had a long peace, and as at the time…
This is when it gets difficult, because Pound becomes personal in the first part. Personal means tied to the popular culture of the day: as…