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Grace Davis <[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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Hail to ya, Stepen.  All of my students are only interested in money/business/computers as well.  Keep up the good work of trying to open their minds.
     -Grace Davis

Stephen Tyler wrote:

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> From: "Stephen Tyler" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:55:57 +0200
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> 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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