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I also admire Hugh Kenner's early book. He established an important method
of approach for Pound's poetry -- look at the prose. It still works, but we
have more prose to look at than Hugh did in 1949.
Cheers,
Tim Redman
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of A. David Moody
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Subject: Kenner's "Poetry of Ezra Pound"
Carrol Cox wrote that this was "an unrevised and unexpanded printing of
Kenner's doctoral dissertation". Not so. His 1950 Yale doctoral
dissertation became <Dublin's Joyce> (1956).
In "Retrospect: 1985", written as preface to the Bison Books Edition (U. of
Nebraska Press), Kenner said: "<The Poetry of Ezra Pound> was written in six
weeks, July-August 1949, by a graduate student ostensibly vacationing
between academic years directed toward other work."
He also wrote: "The scholarship of dedicated people on five continents has
obsolesced it in almost every particular." He did not mention his own
<Pound Era> (1971), the work which above all the rest rendered it obsolete.
But in the1950s there was nothing that came anything near it as an attempt
to see <The Cantos> steadily and to see them whole. It was a brilliant,
dazzling, exhilarating improvisation. ("Lousy" is definitely not the word
for it.)
David Moody
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