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: > -----Original Message----- > From: "Stephen Tyler" <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:55:57 +0200 > To: [log in to unmask] > 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. > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! > > http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?170 > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! > > http://www.net2phone.com/cgi-bin/link.cgi?170