Carpenter's is too superficial... a shopping list of Pound...
 
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From: Richard Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: Tytell's _Solitary Volcano_
 
 
> I can't help you on the subject of The Solitary Volcano, as I haven't read
> it. Perhaps though you and others would be interested to know (if you
don't
> know already) that there is a new Pound biography in the course of being
> prepared by Professor Moody at York University. Since I know this only
> because it has been announced ("Not yet available") on amazon.co.uk I
can't
> tell you anything about it except that I would expect it to be well worth
> reading. If Professor Moody can hear us, I wonder whether he'd care to
tell
> us something to whet our appetites?
>
> I'd be interested to know what people think of Carpenter's biography. I
> approached it with some trepidation after reading Geoffrey Hill's savage
> review of it in Agenda but actually I think it is very good. Hill's main
> complaints are that it is too long and that Carpenter doesn't understand
> what is involved in writing poetry. So far as length is concerned I think
> the last third or so of the book is diffuse and could have been pruned
down
> a little but on the whole there is not all that much information I would
> regard as irrelevant or uninteresting. As for Carpenter's understanding of
> poetry, it is true that he contributes little of his own to the critical
> appreciation of Pound's poetry. But in some ways I think it is a good
thing
> to be able to read a biography written by someone who is neither a
Poundian
> nor a literary critic. On balance I think I prefer Stock but Carpenter
> certainly adds many things I didn't know before and which I am glad to
know.
>
> Hill singles out for modest praise the section on the "trial". This is
> indeed well worth reading, even by those who don't have the time or
> inclination to plough through the whole thing.
>
> Richard Edwards
>
>
>
>
> >From: Robert Yunk <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> >  <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Tytell's _Solitary Volcano_
> >Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:54:58 -0400
> >
> >John Tytell's _Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano_ New York: Anchor, 1987.
> >
> >Does anyone have an opinion of this biography they'd care to share?  I've
> >read Carpenter's _Serious Character_ and Wilhelm's _Pound 1908-1925_...
> >
>
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