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At 07:38 AM 9/10/99 -1000, Richard Edwards wrote:
> Geoffrey Hill's strange new
>book-length poem, *The Triumph of Love* (Houghton Mifflin 1998/Penguin
>1999), contains the following lines in section (canto?) CXLVI:
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>"Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark:
>Mosaic statute, to which Ruskin was steadfast.
>(If Pound had stood so, he might not have foundered.)"
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>Does anyone have any idea what Hill is getting at here?
I think Hill doesn't know what he's talking about. Pound would never remove
his neighbour's mark, and never did - he had an enormous respect for history
and all developments in literature (although more for some than for others),
and I don't think that ever changed. Pound's foundering consisted of a
stupid, blind anti-Semitism combined with a life of too much isolation.
Hill's comment is just a cold blast of hot air aimed at nothing but making a
literary reference.
Arwin
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