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Peter Bi <[log in to unmask]>
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- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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May I comment ?

Fine Greek versus Greek+Roman+Asian+American History+...
or
The best female poet versus the best poet if one really
needs to compare who's better.


Peter H. Bi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Stephen Tyler" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:55:57 +0200
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> Subject:
> Hope you don't mind me reusing this message to the HD group as means of
> introduction.
> Hello all! I'm new to this list, and not being a seasoned user of IT, I hope
> I've done what's necessary to join the group.(I think I have, but I've received
> some contradictory status messages, and haven't yet received any messages from
> the group: hence my doubt.)
> I live in Warsaw, Poland, where I teach English. Born in Sydney, Australia, I've
> lived for 20 years in London, mainly, but with several stints teaching here in
> Warsaw.
> My love of HD was born of my studies of EP during my 20s.(I'm mid 40s, if you
> were wondering, and, yes, I know I should have taken a course in IT by now.)
> Though I greatly admire Pound, it is mainly as a teacher and influence, not so
> much as a poet: I concluded, after many years studying modernist poetry, that HD > was more truly a poet than Pound, even than Eliot. This is something I hope to
> discuss with the group.
> I have scant opportunity here to teach HD: most of my students have deadened
> their sensibilities with business studies, and my attempts to revive them have
> only jeopardised my job prospects. Business English is what's in demand here:
> I've never lived in a country where Humanities/Arts is considered so
> unimportant, and where so many sensitive looking young people bury themselves in
> such studies as Marketing, Management etc. But I hope I've been able to offer an
> alternative vision to at least a few of them, and have found HD's poetry the
> best means for this.
> Next week I'm going to Venice and Florence for a week. (I hope to pour a
> libation at EP's grave in Venice.)
> Well, that's me introduced! I promise to keep more closely to the list topic in
> future.
> Hope to hear from the group soon.
>
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