This kind of "envy," if you can call it that (I think of it as a
justifiable resentment), ate into Pound right into old age.  When
I first visited him, I told him that various grants enabled me to
do so.  Olga was quick to point out the irony: a student of EP
could get money to visit the Master, but the Master could get no
grant money for anything.  (In those late years, Olga was almost
completely Pound's alter-ego and mouthpiece.)
 
==Dan
 
At 11:25 AM 8/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>As everyone knows, Pound was kicked out of the academy, and once he
achieved fame, tried to get back to the U.S. from Europe in that capacity.
Unfortunately, he had become too boistrous and  pro-fascist, and no
department wanted him. His poetry, too, is arguably that best suited for
the researcher, for the academic. The Cantos are the professor's friend
more so than they are the friend of those who would simply open up a page
randomly on the bookshelf.
>   As this quote is a response to the assertion that Pound wanted to be an
academic, how are we to take it?  Are envy of the man with the steady job,
and no worry about the future the baser passions the poet would express?
If so, the quote confirms the assertion on the one hand, and on the other,
critiques the persona that would revel in the carefree life.  Kind of a
proto Philip Larkin (Toads, Toads Revisited)?
>
>
>>>> Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> 08/20 10:18 AM >>>
>"Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions,
>Let us express our envy of the man with a steady job and no worry about the
>future."
>
>
>Daniel Pearlman wrote:
>
>>
>> [...] EP would have liked nothing better than to have become
>> a REAL professor rather than just working out of his own
>> Ezuversity.
>
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