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Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:29:55 -0500
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Nikolay Nikiforov <[log in to unmask]>
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Re: The Prophet
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TW> "In 1913, Pound wrote: 'If I were a painter...I might found a new school
TW> of painting, of non-representative painting, a painting that would speak
TW> only by arrangements of color.' "
Do you think it was much prophetic by that time?

You can check the context of these lines:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/pound/metro.htm
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1657.html

What I like about Pound is his notion of "the curse of provincialism".

Nikolay

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