At 03:03 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>If I say that Pound's work gains in integrity, am I saying therefore that it
>gains in coherence?
In answer to Michael, I would say that the two concepts, integrity and
coherence, are entirely disparate. To mirror life with integrity does not
require incoherence of form to match incoherence of life. Art exists
not just to mirror our world, but to make sense of it.
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