It seems like a lot of explaining to explain a "village explainer".

-Moyer

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>From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Emerson- Pound
>Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 9:58 AM
>

> Bob:
>
> Reference your musing on economic things you might try:
>
> Surette, Leon,  "Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to
> Anti-Semitism", Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1999.
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM
>
>
>>      I have never thot of this period in terms of pop notions of idealism
> vs
>> materialism; nor, of the Cantos as contra-Kapital.  But would be
> interested
>> to hear the case made.  Certainly Pound was contemporary with the most
>> dramatic and apocalytpically violent period of western history since the
>> dark ages.  Certainly History is his cardinal theme; and his persona was
>> afflicted  with manic conviction of his own insight (a la OT prophet or
>> Puritan divine) into its hierophantic significance.