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Re: Re Pound and Shakespeare
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Jack Savage <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:24:41 -0800
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>From: Jack Savage <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>    <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Re Pound and Shakespeare
>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:16:09 -0800
>
>>From: bob scheetz <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>>    <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Re: Re Pound and Shakespeare
>>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:21:29 -0500
>>
>> >...the "Pull down thy vanity" passage....Any ideas about this?
>>
>>Jacob,    ...why not the obvious, usura?... metafor for the unprecedented
>>vanity fair of bourgeois materialism?
>>bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:40 PM
>>Subject: Re Pound and Shakespeare
>>
>>
>> > In response to Professor Gill's suggestion for news about current
>> > projects, I expect my book, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D., a study
>>of
>> > the relations between the two, to be published next year.
>> >  And to fill in the dead air of the list, and return to an old
>> > controversy, the "Pull down thy vanity" passage.
>> >         To the extent that I have been following the discussion,
>>opinion
>> > has passed from the view that it is an expression of remorse to the
>>idea
>> > that EP is cursing out the US army. Some reflection suggests that he is
>> > writing about the US as a whole --"rathe to destroy," etc But then
>>there
>> > is the view that these lines are spoken by the goddess of the "eyes" in
>> > the preceding passage as a reproach to Pound, which reverses again. On
>>the
>> > other hand, would "eyes" speak -- symbolically or otherwise?
>> >         Any ideas about this?
>
>
>well, bob, how about the obvious? that when a man uses the word
>"vanity", he means vanity .... especially when you know the relevant
>bible passage
>
>Vanitas vanitorum , y'all
>
>alan
>
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