The beauty of the Cantos is that the poet never lets you forget that there
is a real man there living through all the shit. "Without character you will
not be able to play on this instrument." Borders poets are a dime a dozen.

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>From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Romantic Pound
>Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2003, 11:16 PM
>

> Hello
>
> Unlike the postmodern movement which seemed to draw a lot of energy from
> it's opposition to modernism, Pound saw his poetics as beyond romantics.
> The modernists were the next stage.  They were not "better than" romantics
> so much as they were the future of poetry.   Pound didn't so much emulate
> romantics or deny them as he learned from them and absorbed them.  I think
> Pound saw himself as the descendent of the romantics.  Most were his honored
> ancestors, their spirits were embodied in Pound just like Catullus etal and
> were continued into the future through his efforts.
>
> Rick Seddon