>From: Michael Springate <[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: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:23:14 -0500
>
>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:
>
> > ----------
> > >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
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> > >>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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ferchrissake, it wasn't a question.... the crack about Eliot
and a "profound understanding of women ...

review the context !!!

it   was   a

J O K E

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