"You can spot the bad critic when he starts with the poet instead of the
poem."  - Ez
 
RE:
>
> well put.....  criticisms like the one richard is responding to reveal
more
> about the critic than the subject under consideration.  to criticize pound
in
> any meaningful way is to make him as honorable as one honestly can; only
then
> will the true magnitude of pound's malevolence come into focus.  perhaps
the
> most devastating criticism of pound's embrasure of fascism was made by
pier
> paolo passolini in his last film: Salo: 120 Days of Sodom.
>
 
HOW COULD WE FORGET??? But as for me... I think there has been way too much
grey matter used up on this grey matter... let's drop it, eh?
 
Billy Marshall Stoneking