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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:16:10 -0800
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Mr. Smith,

I wonder, is it generally consider, (at least I got this impression
from the Cantos) that Pound had a distaste for the  contemplative mode
of living. What I'm implying is did he dispprove of the buddhists in
favor of the more politically oriented, Confusius-infused dogma.  Of
course he loved the poetry of both, no?

Mike
On Monday, March 14, 2005, at 06:11 PM, J. Mark Smith wrote:
>   Sorry to send this to the general list, but I've tried sending a
> panel
> proposal to you at this address three times today, Robert, and every
> time I
> get a delivery failure message. Is your server down perhaps?
>
>   J. Mark Smith
>
> Quoting Robert Kibler <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Fellow Poundians,
>>
>>     As you know, Pound was getting Chinese from all corners from about
>> 1913 onwards.  He had inherited the Fenollosa papers and through them,
>> became acquainted with Taoist and Buddhist poets of the T'ang period,
>> as
>> well as with Chinese aesthetics and poetics generally. But he also
>> started reading Confucius about this time, and as Mary Cheadle argues,
>> Pound remained a Confucian virtually all the rest of his works and
>> days,
>> even if his understanding of Confucianism changed time and again.
>>
>>    Given the enduring and profound impact of Confucianism on Pound's
>> work and thought, please consider leading a 20 minute learned
>> discussion
>> (as opposed to exclusively reading from a paper--we need more life in
>> our sessions.) on the subject at this year's MLA Convention.  Send
>> title, abstract, and short vita to Robert Kibler, via e-mail, no later
>> than 15 March.
>>
>> Send to:  [log in to unmask]
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>> All the arts lose virtue against the essential reality of
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>> Creatures going about their business among the
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>> Equally earnest elements of nature.
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>>    Robinson Jeffers, "Boats in Fog"
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>> Robert E. Kibler, Assoc. Prof. English and Humanities
>>
>> Director, Northern Plains Writing Project
>>
>> Room 229 West, Hartnett Hall
>>
>> Minot State University
>>
>> 500 University Blvd West
>>
>> Minot, north Dakota 58707
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>> 701 858 3876
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>> [log in to unmask]
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