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thanks, Richard, ...I hope to take your suggestion, am lacking a lot in
scholarship thing. Did pound ever seriously work up his marx?
bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Emerson- Pound
> Bob:
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> Reference your musing on economic things you might try:
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> Surette, Leon, "Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to
> Anti-Semitism", Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1999.
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> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM
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> > I have never thot of this period in terms of pop notions of
idealism
> vs
> > materialism; nor, of the Cantos as contra-Kapital. But would be
> interested
> > to hear the case made. Certainly Pound was contemporary with the most
> > dramatic and apocalytpically violent period of western history since the
> > dark ages. Certainly History is his cardinal theme; and his persona was
> > afflicted with manic conviction of his own insight (a la OT prophet or
> > Puritan divine) into its hierophantic significance.
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