Hi all, What does everyone think of Pound as a post-romantic? While he wasn't a theorist about the imagination (cf Wallace Stevens), or I would say a 'conscious' romantic (whatever that may mean) his work features many romantic techniques, such as the focus on a single external allowing the mind to wander about (this is seen in the pisan cantos for one) making the poem more about his own mindthan the object. It's quite interesting to compare the cantos with Don Juan in this respect, and if for arguments sake we call don juan a romantic epic, both poems feature structure only by the abscence (Byron's method was even admired by people who disliked the poem such as Eliot and Woolf, for allowing him to basically say whatever he wanted and take any tone he wanted without creating incongruity- Wordsworth can't do this in the Prelude) of a traditional structure, and attempt to encompass the whole of a human experience albeit in extremely different ways; as Harold Bloom said "Don Juan could only be finished when [Byron] was". Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Best, Rich _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband