I like your point, but is there no "inward gaz(e)"ing in The Cantos? or
continuation of his earlier obsession with advancement of craft?
Sincere question: where is the bisect or turning point in The Cantos
when Pound departs his:
Live man goes down into world of Dead
The 'repeat in history'
The 'magic moment' or moment of metamorphosis, bust thru quotidien into
'divine or permanent world.
When does Pound abandon these guidelines for The Republic? Is the Pisan
Cantos the return of these earlier intentions and the "inward gaze?"
 
--- Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When Pound turned himself from a poet of  'the
> obscure reveries of the
> inward gaze' into a poet who would 'sing war'  --
> from a lyric poet into an
> epic poet -- his subject matter became The Republic.
>  Aesthete Pound could
> have been content to be remembered as a poet "whose
> greatest achievement may
> have been to advance the art in terms of craft and
> technique, pushing it in
> new directions..."  But Epic Pound wanted to leave a
> larger legacy:  EP
> sought to rejuvenate and restore The Republic and to
> return It to its First
> Principles. EP chose to enter what is called Public
> Life--public not in the
> debased sense, where the famous artist is the
> darling of paparazzi for a
> fleeting 15 minutes, but public in the sense of
> Patria and Statesmanship and
> Civic Duty. EP had faith that Art could shape Life.
> Artifice (today we call
> it "spin") shapes opinion, so why not Art?  But he
> was no Machiavel: Pound's
> tragic flaw was innocence.
>
> Reading over what I've just written before sending
> it out,  I realize that
> my view of Pound has been influenced by things
> Wyndham Lewis has written
> about the poet as much as it has evolved from my own
> close readings of
> Pound's poetry and prose. But it's been a very long
> time since I've read
> anything Lewis. Am I remembering his The Lion and
> The Fox? Or is it The Art
> of Being Ruled?
> Tim Romano
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: C.Brandon Rizzo <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, 04 Sep 1999 7:23 PM
> Subject: Re: FIRE!
>
>
> > Can EP's Poetics be split? Namely, via Williams'
> old saying: "It's not
> what
> > you say, but how you say it". The HOW seems to be
> imperative. And i'm
> talking
> > FORM THEORY here, used by Pound, pragmatically.
> This is not to simply
> brush
> > aside politics, economics, et al, but to change
> the scope. Pound's
> greatest
> > achievement may have been to advance the art in
> terms of craft and
> technique,
> > pushing it in new directions, so to speak. Food
> for thought.
> >
> > --CB
> >
> >
>
 
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