Thank you for your response! This is very useful information and I greatly
appreciate it!
 
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> From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pound/Whitman "A Pact"
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 10:15 AM
>
> Cindy,
>
> I don't think the Web is going to help you focus on an analysis of
> "Pact" (which, by the way, in an earlier version Pound titled "Truce,"
> so that the later version implies EP's acceptance of Whitman more as
> a colleague than an enemy).
>
> Haven't looked at "Pact" for a long while, but--
>
> Some basic background: Early on, EP did not like Whitman, whom he
> regarded as crude in both technique and subject matter; but later he
> saw himself, as an American epic poet, engaged in the same project
> as Whitman's, for whom he must now have greater sympathy.  So he
> now sees that he must incorporate and go beyond, not simply despise
> and ignore, his (by then world-famous) predecessor.  Whitman, in his
> crude earlier way, chopped down the trees, but Pound will do the
> fine "carving" based on his greater technical sophistication,
> broader cultural experience, etc.
>
> You seem to be in need of this basic background.  If I'm wrong, I
> apologize.  Good luck.
>
> ==Dan Pearlman
>
> At 08:52 AM 11/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >I am actually looking for directions on where to look for the answers,
not
> >asking anyone to do the homework for me.  I don't have alot of resources
in
> >my area.  I thought that if you are a scholar of Pound you could point
me
> >to a website where I can find the information and use it to do my
homework.
> > Sorry if you were bothered by this!
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Jonathan Morse <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: Pound/Whitman "A Pact"
> >> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:29 AM
> >>
> >> Not to be cruel if the assignment is due tomorrow, Cindy, but what are
> >YOUR
> >> ideas? If you don't have anything to say except "Do my homework for
me,"
> >> the experts you're asking will just reply "No." After all, what's in
it
> >for
> >> them? But if you put something forward, other people can engage
> >themselves
> >> in a conversation and things will be learned on both sides.
> >>
> >> Jonathan Morse
> >
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