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]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: Emerson- Pound


> Bob:
>
> Reference your musing on economic things you might try:
>
> Surette, Leon,  "Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to
> Anti-Semitism", Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1999.
>
> Rick Seddon
> McIntosh, NM
>
>
> >      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.