The classics do not have a wide circulation. This is not classical poetry. It is modern. The modernist movements — of which imagism was one…
Posted: 9 February 2021
Categories: Poetry
Tag: Ezra Pound
Posted: 20 October 2020
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 13 October 2020
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 23 June 2020
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 16 June 2020
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 26 May 2020
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 14 April 2020
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 8 October 2019
Categories: Poetry
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…
Posted: 17 July 2019
Categories: Poetry
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…