Ah, the disdain! Are you sure you aren't one of my ex-husbands?
hee hee.
Kate
Jack -- please do go on -- really -- I need all the Pound background I can.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Savage" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce
> >From: Kate Cone <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce
> >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:50:43 -0500
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >I will note these references...
> >
> >I am writing my masters thesis on how E.E. Cummings and Robert Frost's
> >poetry are related. They both had major relationships with Pound.
> >
> >My major "so what?" about my thesis is: why are 2 of the most popular
> >American poets of the 20th century thought of so disparately that they
are
> >(almost) never put in the same frame in modern criticism? I think I know
> >why, but if any of you have any ideas, PLEASE share. This is obviously a
> >very smart bunch, and I think you'll have much info to give me.
> >
> >Kate Cone, J.D.
> >Topsham, Maine
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dirceu Villa" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:45 PM
> >Subject: Re: Imagism and Joyce
> >
> >
> > > --- "Davis, Alex" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > Dear Poundians,
> > > >
> > > > I'd be very grateful if anyone could
> > > > recommend any
> > > > articles/books/chapters which dealt with Imagism,
> > > > Pound and Joyce's poetry.
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Alex Davis
> > >
> > > Mr. Davis,
> > > You may find interesting (I'm supposing you DON'T
> > > KNOW the book yet)the following vol.: Pound/Joyce: The
> > > Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's
> > > Essays on Joyce (Ed. by Forrest Read), New Directions,
> > > 1967. Also, Richard Ellmann's biography intitled James
> > > Joyce, for comments on the poems, and an article by
> > > Myra Russel, "The Elizabethan Connection: The Missing
> > > Score of James Joyce's Chamber Music", in James Joyce
> > > Quaterly, Tulsa, Okla, 1963.
> > > Concerning Imagism & Pound, see Ezra Pound's "How
> > > to Read", in Literary Essays (edited by T.S.Eliot),
> > > and Noel Stock's The Life of Ezra Pound, Penguin, 1970
> > > (for Imagism at least the first chapters; also, if you
> > > are starting to read Pound, there is Ezra Pound (Ed.
> > > by J. P. Sullivan)in the collection Penguin Critical
> > > Anthologies, which contains a big deal of critics and
> > > poets etc. reading Pound's work. If you read French
> > > try to find the collection of essays published by Les
> > > Cahiers de L'Herne in two volumes (it is somewhat
> > > difficult to find it, BUT if I could find it here in
> > > Brazil I suppose you can find it too).
> > >
> > > That's what I can collect immediately. IF you need
> > > further information, just say so.
> > >
> > > Dirceu Villa.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>
>
> Pound's "relationship" with Frost could hardly be characterized
> as "major" .....
>
> not to mention Mr Frost's shameless use of Pound's predicament
> after WWII
>
> ...
>
> anyway, ... if Frost and Cummings are considered minor poets,
> it could be for the obvious reason
>
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