Dear Jack: I knew it was a joke. Honest. My humour in return may have been a touch too dry for your taste. However, I wanted turn your joke to effect, and bring attention to Morante. She deals with history, the "epic impulse", story and character in a way that I find quite unique. Michael Jack Savage wrote: > >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.