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Hello Professor Davis,

Very interesting indeed! Good to hear from you.

Looking forward to a meeting when our paths cross next.

Best Wishes for the semester in progress and your work ahead.

KevinK

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Davis, Alex <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I agree with Roxana and Tim: tempus tacendi.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Professor Alex Davis
>
> School of English
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> University College Cork
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> Ireland
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> +353 (0)21 490 2185/2241/2664
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> ________________________________________
> From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [
> [log in to unmask]] on behalf of Kevin Kiely [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 22 September 2014 12:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Article on Seamus H
>
> Hello Tim,
>
> I am informally mid-work replying and say thanks for your honesty in
> response.
>
> I don't think anyone would wish to raise obloquy to Mr S. H. because of his
> genuine 'Mr Nice Guy' image. Me neither.
>
> You will well know that Shakespeare's dedicatee remains anonymous as Mr W.
> H. 'the onlie begetter'; and this shares, with what I see as Mr S. H.s
> anonymity in poetry, though SH has a conspicuous reputation which requires
> sharper-analysis rather than the usual hosannas.  I shouldn't add here but
> do: what would EP have thought of SH? It's 'what if' in any event.
>
> SH's Frost (Robt.) obsession is provable and explains his subject matter,
> if one can call it a subject-matter that matters, since SH is utterly 'down
> on the farm' using subject matter more suitable to popular musicals as in
> 'Oklahoma', 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' and 'Calamity Jane' - I am
> being deliberately facetious and serious in mentioning these 3. Seamus is
> stuck in the farmyard and not certainly with Dylan Thomas's dexterity on
> the farmyard of eternal childhood. One may as well add to the ludicrous and
> say that good fences make bad poets. I obviously do not mean Thomas.
>
> SH's 'Digging' is a frightful piece of trash-verse and reflects more on
> those who admire it than SH and his willful buckets of nostalgia.
>
> While I can look into Frost (rarely): I have no obsession with his poetry.
> SH had such a Frost obsession. O heck!
>
> My article in 'Village' I stand over and wonder what other publication
> would have ever printed it.
>
> What is the history of criticism of poetry? It must be and is hierarchy
> eventually, as Eliot, Lowell and all fair-minded poets and critics of those
> high slopes show in their work including their criticism; Mr S. H. could
> not abide Emily Dickinson and certainly not the Modernists, if anyone takes
> the time to look into his own comments on them, and his begrudging Yeats is
> clearly shown in his comments.
>
> Look the weather is fine here today. Hope you have fair weather where you
> are, and that the year is progressing favourably. I am on the side of
> poetry. SH would have been just as transparent writing snippets of Nature
> Notes and verse for Outdoors Magazines.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> KevinK
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Timothy Redman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree.
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
> > Tim Redman
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roxana Preda" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 1:42:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: Article on Seamus H
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > There are a lot of Heaney enthusiasts among us, I am sure and Kevin's
> > barbs will hurt enough to push them to discussion. If you follow the
> > link to his article, as I did, you will see the comment box under the
> > text.
> >
> > However, I think that on this list we should stick to Pound - there
> > are plenty of controversial topics to discuss and lots of advertising
> > to do re our work on old EP.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Roxana
> >
> > Quoting Kevin Kiely <[log in to unmask]> on Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:40:37
> > +0100:
> >
> > > Dear Roxana,
> > >
> > > I wish to alert members of the Pound List and on your website to an
> > article
> > > of mine on Seamus Heaney in 'Village Magazine' (Ireland).
> > >
> > > http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2014/08/5960/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >    1. Kevin Kiely puts boot into Seamus Heaney
> > >    <
> http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2014/08/5960/comment-page-1/
> > >
> > >    Village ‎- 1 day ago
> > >    After his death last year the Independent newspaper describedSéamus
> > >    Heaney as “probably the best-known poet in the world”. According to
> > ...
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind Regards & Best Wishes as Autumn/Fall arrives,
> > >
> > > Kevin Kiely PhD
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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