Listpeople,
                 there’s a problem when you think
“elite” as being the rich (cl)asses. They are, we can
say, a kind of “economic elite”, but not a “language
elite”. Great poets and writers are the language elite
wherever they come from: they understand and practice
many levels of language with unique skill and mastery.
That’s why critics discuss them sideways: critics in
general can’t figure out what is asked of a poet.
                 Pound’s big error was that you can
read in Stoner’s message: the author of The Cantos
thought he could apply the laws of art (which are by
no means democratic) to society and have a nice result
from this bizarre “assemblage”. Octavio Paz noticed
that poetic problem in Pound’s comprehension of the
world between the two wars.
                Inevitably, and unhappily, there are
few people who can understand how art functions. For
this, see the historic interviews of Paris Review.


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