Charles:

Well, a mid-century Italian writer with an incredible understanding of women
would be the much too neglected Elsa Morante (you didn't limit your question to
male writers, did you?), whose work "History, A Novel" is both very modern and
very epic.

It deserves much more attention then it receives.

Michael

charles moyer wrote:

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> >From: Jack Savage <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List
> >Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 4:50 AM
> >
>
> >>From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> >>    <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List
> >>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:47:20 -0800
> >>
> >>At 05:57 PM 20/12/01 -0500, Daniel Pearlman wrote:
> >> >  Having taught graduate courses in both Pound and
> >> >Frost, I have to say that I have gradually come to see--without any
> >> >suggestion of devaluing Pound or all that I have learned from him--that
> >> >Frost appears the more tuned-in in every way, and is even, in the
> >> >political realm, far more astute than Pound.
> >>
> >>Your average turnip is more politically astute than was Pound.
> >>No disrespect at all to the excellent Frost.  -Tim
> >
> >
> > Frost .... "tuned-in" ... "astute" ... ???
> >
> > I look forward to someone putting forth the proposition
> > that Eliot had a profound understanding of women.
>
> I for one would like someone to tell me just what Frost's politics were.
> Did Solzhenitsyn move to New England to find out?
>     Eliot at least understood Jessie Weston, at one time. Could someone
> offer an example of a writer from the period who had "a profound
> understanding of women"?
>
> Charles
> >
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