From: "Michael Coyle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: "The Pound era": source?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:23:30 +0300
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Dear Jonathan,
 
I don't think that student got the facts right, though I'm away from my
files at home and can't check. Is Birte Dornhecker thinking of Pound's
joking calendar for *The Little Review*, a calendar that toys with the
materials that Yeats was already shaping into what he later published as *A
Vision*? Even here, however, I don't remember EP referring to "the Pound
Era." If you would kindly forward this post too to the list, perhaps Leon
Surette can put us straight. I'm pretty sure that Leon would know. In any
case, and one really would here want to know the context of that possible
iteration, it's not a phrase that Pound repeated. It's especially unlikely
that he could have offered that phrase seriously in 1922, when his
astonishment over Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Joyce's "Ulysses" brought
work on the *Cantos* to a temporary but still significant halt.
 
Best,
 
Michael
 
 
> >
> Michael Coyle writes:
>
> > [This] note is simple, but makes a big
> >difference with regard to how anyone thinks of Pound. Pound himself
*never*
>
> >used the phrase "The Pound Era," and would have been embarrassed had
anyone
>
> >else done so in his hearing. It was Hugh Kenner who coined the phrase. .
.
> .
>
> At
>
>
> >
http://ikarus.pclab-phil.uni-kiel.de/daten/anglist/PoetryProject/Pound.htm
> >
> >
> >
> you'll find a student paper about Pound by Birte Dornhecker, who says, "In
> 1922, with characteristic aplomb, Pound announced that the 'Christian Era'
> was over and that the 'Pound Era' had begun." I'm pretty sure I've also
read
> that proclamation of Pound's in its primary source. But (speaking of
> embarrassment) where?
>
> Jonathan Morse