>You seem to object
>that Pound
>never surpassed Pound; since he himself confessed as much in his
>last Canto, you
>appear to beat a dead horse, rather than to thrill at his
>steeplechases.
 
 
dan,
     there's more' n a touch a  theatre to ole ez, tho,  eh?
hubris,...the sparagmos of the tiger cage/trial/bughouse,
and then (as you say) a self-recognition (maybe),
...the collonus anti-climax
...complete with women...nso on.
 
trouble is the nagging suspicion itz not attic but hollowood.
and ep's jazz,
an unintended metaphor
for merkan  superficiality,
(the iconoclasm seems too wholesale/subjective to qualify,
the idolatry, too reactionary)
and western pomo (unbearable-lightness-of-being) nihilism
...gainst which some (eliot) opposed a hand;
others, trafficked.
 
bloom must be neo-kantian,
dismissing  ari & co
(also the psalms/proverbs author)...eh?
not clear how the otherness of text
could ever really originate in self...?
 
anyway,  just the tentatives
of a perplexed and frustrated beginner
flailing for that arch-trope, ep's ganzwelt
...grateful for any toehold.
 
thanks,
bob
 
 
 
 
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Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 8:38 AM
>Daniel Zimmerman
>Professor
>Middlesex County College
>Edison, NJ
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Bob,
>
>"Narcissism" seems too personal and too pejorative a judgment.
>Pound appears,
>rather, to embody two antagonistic but often ourobotic/symbiotic
>impulses:
>iconoclasm and idolatry. Perhaps his appetite for the ganzwelt
>amalgamated
>[often blurred] the um-, the mit-, the eigen-? Great men did once
>tread [others
>attest it] an earth now gone, perhaps, too spongy to sustain
>them.
>
>[I asked my English Composition students, a few years ago, to
>name their heroes.
>After five minutes of dead silence, one tentatively said:
>"The Pope?" Another said "Nobody qualifies." None had read *any*
>of the writers
>mentioned in _The ABC of Reading_ or (with the possible exception
>of eec)
>_Confucius to Cummings_].
>
>Let me suggest [with Bloom] that every reader reads first as a
>poet manque;
>most--unlike Pound--never surpass themselves. You seem to object
>that Pound
>never surpassed Pound; since he himself confessed as much in his
>last Canto, you
>appear to beat a dead horse, rather than to thrill at his
>steeplechases.
>
>Remember: charity begins at poem.
>
>Best,
>
>Dan Zimmerman