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At 08:16 AM 10/22/99 -0400, Tim Romano wrote:
>My motives have been to shed some light in this forum on Pound's ideology
>because I think it is necessary to understand his IDEAS if we are to
>understand his poetry and his political views.
I think EP's political and ethnic views are not that hard to understand.
Hard to empathize with, but not hard to penetrate. I also think they are
wrong, shallow, and uninteresting. The poetry, on the other hand, is very
hard to understand but both deep and interesting.
There is a secondary issue: how someone so deeply consumed by nasty, trivial,
idiotic views can at the same time be a deep well of pure poetic beauty.
But I don't think you need to invest much time in understanding EP's
muddy confluence of Douglasian Social Credit, Olde European anti-Semitism,
and Fascist corporatism in order to get closer to the poems. -T.
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