EPOUND-L Archives

- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine

EPOUND-L@LISTS.MAINE.EDU
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
Re: Canto II & Prohibition
From:
Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:34:00 -0400
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (15 lines) 
I'd guess that the best poets don't concern themselves much with
alluding to current events in their poetry.
==Dan

At 01:15 PM 10/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear friends --
>
>I last night ran across a claim (authored by Hugh Kenner) that Canto II
>is an "oblique protest against the Prohibition amendment".  ...
>
>It does seem strange that such a socially sweeping legislative act
>should not find fuller representation in the verse of Modernist poets,
>Go Cubs!
>Jon Weidler (in Chicago)

ATOM RSS1 RSS2