Those poets and academics (they overlap) who praise Pound
for Imagism are frequently the same who dismiss or condemn
anything of his post-Mauberley.
 
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>this is quite true.  Most people are quick to dismiss Pound.  And then
>there are the poets.  Last week at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Alan
>Shapiro said there was no more important poetic movement in the twentieth
>century than Imagism, and quoted a poem of his to indicate near-perfect use
>of I don't remember what, sadly.  And another poet there who'll be teaching
>a class on Poetics at Texas this fall told me about how he'll use Pound as
>a way to introduce Chinese poetry and poetics to the class.  And yesterday
>I read an article in some journal or other that applauded the seriousness
>of Pound's love of all poetic traditions as a model for contemporary poets,
>mentioning that without him etc etc etc.  I suppose Pound achieved
>something of what he wanted.  The artists recognize him as one of the
>antennae of our race.  To hell, then, with the bullet-headed many.
>Journalists and a lot of professors may have a hard time with his work, but
>he comes as close as I can imagine to being a poet's poet; no one who's
>ever written lines down seriously would dare consider much of his work
>a-tonal.
>
>Lucas
>
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