All art (literature) is essentially religious... i.e.: in its essence,
it is transcendant, providing a transcendent experience for its
viewer/reader/listener... the view from the Masthead (vide: Moby Dick)...
this experience...
this sense of resonance ... is comforting...
To the extent that Pound's poetry rises to literature
(the religious, the transcendent)
it will comfort those who
resonate
with it.
 
Stoneking
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Kibler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: EP and academics
 
 
> I wonder if Pound would see his Cantos as a work to comfort during those
certain times late in the night, far from home? I think Frost's work might
serve this end, but the Cantos is primarily a working text, not a comforting
one. (not to say that it does not possess comforting moments, or lyrical,
impassioned ones).
>     Where is this quality in the Cantos that most provides the comfort of
which you write? Serious question.
>
> >>> Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> 08/25 7:18 AM >>>
> "Much conversation is as good as having a home."
>   -- Pound,  Difference of Opinion with Lygdamus
>
> >
> > I wonder what proportion of this list's
> > readers comprises those, like me, who read EP only for pleasure and who
> > find the Cantos, in particular, the only pages that will serve the
special
> > needs of certain times late in the night or far from home.>>
>