>From: Michael Springate <[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: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List >Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:23:14 -0500 > >Charles: > >Well, a mid-century Italian writer with an incredible understanding of >women >would be the much too neglected Elsa Morante (you didn't limit your >question to >male writers, did you?), whose work "History, A Novel" is both very modern >and >very epic. > >It deserves much more attention then it receives. > >Michael > >charles moyer wrote: > > > ---------- > > >From: Jack Savage <[log in to unmask]> > > >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List > > >Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 4:50 AM > > > > > > > >>From: Tim Bray <[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: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List > > >>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:47:20 -0800 > > >> > > >>At 05:57 PM 20/12/01 -0500, Daniel Pearlman wrote: > > >> > Having taught graduate courses in both Pound and > > >> >Frost, I have to say that I have gradually come to see--without any > > >> >suggestion of devaluing Pound or all that I have learned from >him--that > > >> >Frost appears the more tuned-in in every way, and is even, in the > > >> >political realm, far more astute than Pound. > > >> > > >>Your average turnip is more politically astute than was Pound. > > >>No disrespect at all to the excellent Frost. -Tim > > > > > > > > > Frost .... "tuned-in" ... "astute" ... ??? > > > > > > I look forward to someone putting forth the proposition > > > that Eliot had a profound understanding of women. > > > > I for one would like someone to tell me just what Frost's politics were. > > Did Solzhenitsyn move to New England to find out? > > Eliot at least understood Jessie Weston, at one time. Could someone > > offer an example of a writer from the period who had "a profound > > understanding of women"? > > > > Charles > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ferchrissake, it wasn't a question.... the crack about Eliot and a "profound understanding of women ... review the context !!! it was a J O K E _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.