Once again you misunderstand. I was suggesting Richard's approach as
perhaps a clearing of the poetic pallette, not too sublty implying that
everyone read the Cantos without 14 secondary sources propped up around
the text as though the poem reveals no music or sense of its own. Pound
WILL reveal himself to you through the Cantos and like Chomsky was quite
the postivist. CP

En Lin Wei wrote:
>
> Carlo wrote:
>
> >P.S. Anything Chomsky writes is worth reading. He's the only Cartesian
> >positivist that I like and his exegesis is wonderful. Of course, he
> >understands taxonomies unlike many on this list.
>
> Yes, I agree.  One of the great minds of our age.  For those interested one
> of Chomsky's latest speeches is available on-line, at
> http://www.pacifica.org        Simply go to Democracy Now, look at the
> Archives link at the bottom of the page and go back a few weeks.  The speech
> is on the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam, and the extent to which the
> corporate controlled media strives to rewrite the history of that war.
> (There are certain parallels to the way the big media corporations re-write
> history and the way Pound re-writes it ----  and important differences of
> course, though the comparison is warranted).
>
> I am trying, in my own limited way, to perform what might be called a
> "Chomskyian " reading of Pound.
>
> As to doing a "New Critical" reading of Pound(in the style of Richards), I
> see no problem with anyone doing that.  (Though it would it might not be
> worth calling "New", anymore; that depends on the application of the theory,
> I suppose).  Anyone who wants to do one should go ahead and post it.  In
> fact, I am such a believer in human freedom (I hope this is not too radical
> an idea), that I think anyone on this list should feel perfectly welcome to
> do any kind of reading they want, whether purely aesthetic, social,
> political, religious, economic, feminist, historicist, marxist, textual,
> psychoanlalytical, or eclectic.
>
> We should extend this little corner of cyberspace to ANYONE who wants to say
> anything they want to say about Pound, shouldn't we?   Welcome to the
> Information Age, which may open us up to more democracy ---even in the
> fields of talking and thinking about literature.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Wei
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