Sheila Watson's writing maybe of value to this list as an adjunct. Her thesis on Lewis is definitive. It, like all her work was very assiduously done. I believe she defined her life's work in terms of her students. Peter M. Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I'll be at that conference - will come to listen! best, Roxana Quoting Bob Dobbs <[log in to unmask]> on Mon, 2 Jun 2014 07:23:21 -1000: > The title of my talk at the BLAST 1914 Conference at Bath Spa > University at the end of July will be: > > "Mind Your Media, People, or You'll Catch a Cold Environment: Sheila > Watson as Missing Link in Lewis Scholarship" > > So, your life's work will be well-represented, Peter. > > :@) > > > Bob Dobbs > > > On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:01 AM, Peter Montgomery wrote: > >> One of Marshall McLuhan's (who had his own history with Pound) >> students, a person named Sheila Watson, did her PhD on Percy >> Wyndham Lewis of Vorticist and portraiture fame, also WWI artist >> for the Canadian govt. She wrote one of the definitive Canadian >> novels, The Double Hook, which has the influence of Pound, Eliot >> and Lewis about it, while being entirely original. I think it might >> well be worthy of consideration for a place in such a list. A >> quotable phrase from it is something like: He didn't know that one >> couldn't catch the glory without the darkness, and to catch twice >> the glory was to catch twice the darkness (almost an accurate quote). >> >> Just saying. >> Peter M. >> >> Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Stephen, >> >> I have now supplemented the plays list with the info and links about >> Findley you gave us. >> >> Our website is that easy to update, even from the front end. >> >> Many thanks for this. >> We also have a first item for a future list about fiction on EP! >> >> Michael Coyle has also informed me of the existence of a bibliography >> of poems about Ezra that Lea Baechler was compiling. Anyone might know >> where her papers are? At least we would know where to look. >> >> Best wishes, >> Roxana >> >> Quoting Stephen J Adams <[log in to unmask]> on Sun, 1 Jun 2014 23:56:15 -0400: >> >>> Poundians: >>> >>> The Bibliography should note that Timothy Findley's play The Trials >>> of Ezra Pound has had at least one major professional production at >>> the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2001. I saw it then and was >>> impressed, though with reservations. The play struck me as fairly >>> even handed, probing, questioning rather than tendentious or >>> hostile. Biographically it struck me as reasonably correct, though >>> it represents EP erroneously as anti-religious. >>> >>> Findley, who is highly regarded among recent Canadian novelists, >>> also wrote Famous Last Words, about a character named Mauberley >>> surviving in Italy during the last months of the War. I have taught >>> that book, as well as his Not Wanted on the Voyage, a retelling of >>> the Noah and the Flood story. (Findley's hostilities towards Jehovah >>> are more overt than they are towards Pound.) His writing is >>> engaging, highly readable, probing in its way, popular with the >>> students, but ultimately, as I found in teaching, not as deep as it >>> might have been. >>> >>> For the play, there are a number of websites, but check these: >>> >>> http://www.stage-door.com/Theatre/2001/Entries/2001/7/22_The_Trials_of_Ezra_Pound.html >>> >>> http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7274/8333 >>> >>> Stephen Adams >>> >>> >>> On 06/01/14, Roxana Preda <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> Dear Poundians, >>>> >>>> In a previous discussion some time ago, people showed interest in >>>> creative writing about Pound and deplored the fact that plays about >>>> him and his life were not more widely known. >>>> >>>> Here was our chance to put our new website to the test. Archie >>>> Henderson compiled a very useful bibliography of plays about Pound >>>> that I have just uploaded to our website. Please have a look at >>>> http://ezrapoundsociety.org/index.php/creativewriting >>>> >>>> What is good about the list is that it gives us statuses of the >>>> plays (whether in manuscript or published; whether performed or >>>> not). It gives synopses and in a considerable number of cases, the >>>> full text of the plays. >>>> We are now able to see just what sides of Pound's life fired the >>>> writers' imagination: how they saw him, what words they put into >>>> his mouth. >>>> >>>> I have checked all the links at my end and hope all of them work >>>> for you too. >>>> What was scattered and seemed lost is now at our fingertips. >>>> >>>> A warm vote of thanks to Archie! >>>> >>>> Enjoy, >>>> Roxana >>>> >>>> PS Maybe we could also have a list of poems, maybe? Or fiction, who knows? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >>>> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Stephen J. Adams >>> Department of English >>> University of Western Ontario >>> "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; >>> therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or >>> beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of >>> history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however >>> virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by >>> love." >>> – Reinhold Niebuhr >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.