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Date: | Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:54:58 +0400 |
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Jeffery Donaldson wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> Here's yet another reference to Pound in Northrop Frye's book on Eliot
> that I would be grateful for a lead on:
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> "As Ezra Pound says, poetry provides equations, like mathematics, but
> equations for emotions."
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> Many thanks for any help,
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> Jeffery Donaldson
Dear Jeffry:
That's exactly what TSE calls "objective correlative", i.e. the formula
of emotion expressed in verse. See Eliot's earlier criticism,
"Hamlet....", "The Metaphysical...", "Shakespeare and the Stoicism...".
A very complicated issue though-- The forefather of the idea must be
T.E.Hulme rather than EP.
All the best,
Temur
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