I don't recall reading any criticism about Pound's views of
women in the Cantos (to limit our field of view for the moment),
but the poetry does seem to show a changing attitude, from the
"fascist"-Worringer view of woman as a biological "chaos,"
"two span to a woman," in the Cantos up through the forties,
to the celebration of an etherealized, Mary-like Aphrodite
as merciful intercessor-goddess in the Pisans.  If such a
study has not been done, it's worth at least a term paper,
I'd think.
 
==Dan Pearlman
 
 
At 11:54 AM 10/23/98 +0900, you wrote:
>For something apart from feminist critiques, of which I am sure you will
>be quickly informed, try Guy Davenport's "Persephone's Ezra" in his <The
>Geography of the Imagination>. A word from the faded patriarchal pew.
>
>From a different congregation, Robert Casillo, whose name has appeared
>recently in our confabulations, thinks Uncle Ez shared the usual fascist
>contempt for women, but I think Casillo has been blinded by his dislike
>for his subject.
>
>Wayne
>
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