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I look forward to your attention, Roxana.

Bob Dobbs

	
On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Roxana Preda wrote:

> I'll be at that conference - will come to listen!
> best,
> Roxana
> 
> Quoting Bob Dobbs <[log in to unmask]> on Mon, 2 Jun 2014 07:23:21 -1000:
> 
>> The title of my talk at the BLAST 1914 Conference at Bath Spa University at the end of July will be:
>> 
>> "Mind Your Media, People, or You'll Catch a Cold Environment: Sheila Watson as Missing Link in Lewis Scholarship"
>> 
>> So, your life's work will be well-represented, Peter.
>> 
>> :@)
>> 
>> 
>> Bob Dobbs
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:01 AM, Peter Montgomery wrote:
>> 
>>> One of Marshall McLuhan's (who had his own history with Pound) students, a person named Sheila Watson, did her PhD on Percy Wyndham Lewis of Vorticist  and portraiture fame, also WWI artist for the Canadian govt. She wrote one of the definitive Canadian novels, The Double Hook, which has the influence of Pound, Eliot and Lewis about it, while being entirely original. I think it might well be worthy of consideration for a place in such a list. A quotable phrase from it is something like: He didn't know that one couldn't catch the glory without the darkness, and to catch twice the glory was to catch twice the darkness (almost an accurate quote).
>>> 
>>> Just saying.
>>> Peter M.
>>> 
>>> Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Stephen,
>>> 
>>> I have now supplemented the plays list with the info and links about
>>> Findley you gave us.
>>> 
>>> Our website is that easy to update, even from the front end.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for this.
>>> We also have a first item for a future list about fiction on EP!
>>> 
>>> Michael Coyle has also informed me of the existence of a bibliography
>>> of poems about Ezra that Lea Baechler was compiling. Anyone might know
>>> where her papers are? At least we would know where to look.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Roxana
>>> 
>>> Quoting Stephen J Adams <[log in to unmask]> on Sun, 1 Jun 2014 23:56:15 -0400:
>>> 
>>>> Poundians:
>>>> 
>>>> The Bibliography should note that Timothy Findley's play The Trials
>>>> of Ezra Pound has had at least one major professional production at
>>>> the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2001. I saw it then and was
>>>> impressed, though with reservations. The play struck me as fairly
>>>> even handed, probing, questioning rather than tendentious or
>>>> hostile. Biographically it struck me as reasonably correct, though
>>>> it represents EP erroneously as anti-religious.
>>>> 
>>>> Findley, who is highly regarded among recent Canadian novelists,
>>>> also wrote Famous Last Words, about a character named Mauberley
>>>> surviving in Italy during the last months of the War. I have taught
>>>> that book, as well as his Not Wanted on the Voyage, a retelling of
>>>> the Noah and the Flood story. (Findley's hostilities towards Jehovah
>>>> are more overt than they are towards Pound.) His writing is
>>>> engaging, highly readable, probing in its way, popular with the
>>>> students, but ultimately, as I found in teaching, not as deep as it
>>>> might have been.
>>>> 
>>>> For the play, there are a number of websites, but check these:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.stage-door.com/Theatre/2001/Entries/2001/7/22_The_Trials_of_Ezra_Pound.html
>>>> 
>>>> http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7274/8333
>>>> 
>>>> Stephen Adams
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/01/14, Roxana Preda  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> Dear Poundians,
>>>>> 
>>>>> In a previous discussion some time ago, people showed interest in
>>>>> creative writing about Pound and deplored the fact that plays about
>>>>> him and his life were not more widely known.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here was our chance to put our new website to the test. Archie
>>>>> Henderson compiled a very useful bibliography of plays about Pound
>>>>> that I have just uploaded to our website. Please have a look at
>>>>> http://ezrapoundsociety.org/index.php/creativewriting
>>>>> 
>>>>> What is good about the list is that it gives us statuses of the
>>>>> plays (whether in manuscript or published; whether performed or
>>>>> not). It gives synopses and in a considerable number of cases, the
>>>>> full text of the plays.
>>>>> We are now able to see just what sides of Pound's life fired the
>>>>> writers' imagination: how they saw him, what words they put into
>>>>> his mouth.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have checked all the links at my end and hope all of them work
>>>>> for you too.
>>>>> What was scattered and seemed lost is now at our fingertips.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A warm vote of thanks to Archie!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Enjoy,
>>>>> Roxana
>>>>> 
>>>>> PS Maybe we could also have a list of poems, maybe? Or fiction, who knows?
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>>>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Stephen J. Adams
>>>> Department of English
>>>> University of Western Ontario
>>>> "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;
>>>> therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or
>>>> beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of
>>>> history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however
>>>> virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by
>>>> love."
>>>> – Reinhold Niebuhr
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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