Well, yes, Peter, I agree with your implicit point that simplistic comparison is an asinine procedure, but...your other point that breadth of subject matter is the criterion, well...
But please allow me some clarification: I love Pound's poetry, but, perhaps as a reaction to my years of regarding The Cantos as the greatest work of EngLit since The Works of WS, I've become aware of a lack of ,sorry, poetic MAGIC that I find in HD.(Those perfect cadences! Those exqisitely weighted lines! Those inexplicable effects of diction!)
Thanks for your comment. Almost all my messages will be rushed as I rely on the use of client's hardware for i/net. (I teach mainly in-company)
Ciao!
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bi <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:45:25 +0000
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Fw:
> May I comment ?
>
> Fine Greek versus Greek+Roman+Asian+American History+...
> or
> The best female poet versus the best poet if one really
> needs to compare who's better.
>
>
> Peter H. Bi
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Stephen Tyler" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:55:57 +0200
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:
> > Hope you don't mind me reusing this message to the HD group as means of
> > introduction.
> > Hello all! I'm new to this list, and not being a seasoned user of IT, I hope
> > I've done what's necessary to join the group.(I think I have, but I've received
> > some contradictory status messages, and haven't yet received any messages from
> > the group: hence my doubt.)
> > I live in Warsaw, Poland, where I teach English. Born in Sydney, Australia, I've
> > lived for 20 years in London, mainly, but with several stints teaching here in
> > Warsaw.
> > My love of HD was born of my studies of EP during my 20s.(I'm mid 40s, if you
> > were wondering, and, yes, I know I should have taken a course in IT by now.)
> > Though I greatly admire Pound, it is mainly as a teacher and influence, not so
> > much as a poet: I concluded, after many years studying modernist poetry, that HD > was more truly a poet than Pound, even than Eliot. This is something I hope to
> > discuss with the group.
> > I have scant opportunity here to teach HD: most of my students have deadened
> > their sensibilities with business studies, and my attempts to revive them have
> > only jeopardised my job prospects. Business English is what's in demand here:
> > I've never lived in a country where Humanities/Arts is considered so
> > unimportant, and where so many sensitive looking young people bury themselves in
> > such studies as Marketing, Management etc. But I hope I've been able to offer an
> > alternative vision to at least a few of them, and have found HD's poetry the
> > best means for this.
> > Next week I'm going to Venice and Florence for a week. (I hope to pour a
> > libation at EP's grave in Venice.)
> > Well, that's me introduced! I promise to keep more closely to the list topic in
> > future.
> > Hope to hear from the group soon.
> >
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