Thank you, Wayne, for the kind interpretation of my question, and the response. Tim's may be a short insight, but it had sounded to me like Ashbery, which means I had been puzzled again. >I think this query deserves a better response. Being familiar with the >writer's native culture and language, let me restate what I understand of the >query. Then I'll try to respond, and I hope others will join me. > >>I am now reading Ashbery's poems, which puzzle me a lot. Did Pound >>appreciate Ashbery or recognize him as a young poet from whom important work >could be expected? Or was >he outside of Pound's interest? > >The answer to your first quest, I believe, is no. I think that by the time >Ashbery's poetry began to appear in print, Pound had little interest in young >poets. He thought he had done enough to recognize and encourage young talent >during the three decades before WWII. During and after the war, he believed >he had more important things to do. > >Nor do i think Pound would have appreciated Ashbery's work if he had seen it. >In his early years in London and Paris, he appreciated surrealism as an >avant-garde movement, but by the thirties he felt that surrealist art was >"stale creampuffs" and anyone still doing it was merely recycling the >contents of some ancestral trunk in the attic. > >That's all that comes to mind right now. Perhaps someone else could comment? > >Wayne Pounds > >Tim Romano wrote: > > > Yes, to a "wide, tepidly meandering" stream. >> Tim Romano >> >> At 11/25/03 10:23 AM +0900, =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCRU9KVT8uRnMbKEI=?= wrote: >> >-Please give me some hints: >> >I am now reading Ashbery's poems which puzzle me a lot. Did Pound >> >appreciate, or expect, him? Or was he out of Pound's interest? Does >> >he bring, or keep, American poetry and the English Poetry to some >> >stream? >> > -- $BEOJU?.Fs (B $B"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"! (B Official Mail Address: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Official Home Page : http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/~z5000026/ $B!! (B 171-8501 $BEl5~ETK-Eg6h@>CSB^#3!]#3#4!]#1 (B $BN)65Bg3XJ83XIt1QJFJ83X2J (B 6 $B9f4[ (B4 $B3, (B6422 $B8&5f<< (B