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It seems like a lot of explaining to explain a "village explainer".
-Moyer
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>From: Richard Seddon <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Emerson- Pound
>Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2003, 9:58 AM
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> 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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