Hi all,

What does everyone think of Pound as a post-romantic? While he wasn't a
theorist about the imagination (cf Wallace Stevens), or I would say a
'conscious' romantic (whatever that may mean) his work features many
romantic techniques, such as the focus on a single external allowing the
mind to wander about (this is seen in the pisan cantos for one) making the
poem more about his own mindthan the object. It's quite interesting to
compare the cantos with Don Juan in this respect, and if for arguments sake
we call don juan a romantic epic, both poems feature structure only by the
abscence (Byron's method was even admired by people who disliked the poem
such as Eliot and Woolf, for allowing him to basically say whatever he
wanted and take any tone he wanted without creating incongruity- Wordsworth
can't do this in the Prelude) of a traditional structure, and attempt to
encompass the whole of a human experience albeit in extremely different
ways; as Harold Bloom said "Don Juan could only be finished when [Byron]
was". Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

         Best,

             Rich

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