In a message dated 1/5/03 11:06:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << I do know the answer to the question about Pound and W.W--one of the few that used to belong to this site who could actually answer the question; nobody on your comp committee will ask the question because it wouldn't occur to them. Although, I know the answer on "A Pact" I don't want to bore you with the polemic, however, ever how. By the way, way, way, I could also manage the Harold Bloom persona, but I don't like the guy very much. He's the great asshole of American criticism, an mere imitator. Oh, by the way, most people find Emerson difficult; he does take time and effort--afterall he is a great poet philosopher. He's difficult like Pound is difficult. Also, if you actually believe there is a "truth," I wonder how you support such an assertion without providing a polemic of your own. Truth is irrelevant in the real world and you will NEVER have access to it, except as found through the seer, the poet--this both Pound and Emerson though true. We could say that your mere assertion, you provide a polemic of sort. You folks miss something significant when you fail to see the connect/disconnect between Pound and Emerson and his enterage (which include HDT and WW.) Whiteman by the way was just the physical manifestation of Emerson. By the way, Whiteman was not a Victorian poet, as you suggest. We could say that Emerson was, although he wanted to move beyond the neoclassical simple-minded poetic. Pound went far beyond all these guys. Because a few (or more) of you folks fail to understand the over-arching poetic and politic of the Cantos, doesn't mean there isn't one, won, 1. I wish you well, everyone. Thanks for the good time, but I think I will seek out individuals and not groups for help. I fair better that way. I'm a seer like Pound and Emerson was; nothing more than a miserable receptical in which either the gods or the oversoul or some other metaphysical manifestation pours its miserable poesy. The poesy isn't mine though, but the metaphysical phenomenons. I think I'll check into the mental hospital, now--maybe I can finish the Cantos. >> geez.... isn't this fellow who said he didn't understand Pound? jb...