Hello Professor Davis, Very interesting indeed! Good to hear from you. Looking forward to a meeting when our paths cross next. Best Wishes for the semester in progress and your work ahead. KevinK On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Davis, Alex <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I agree with Roxana and Tim: tempus tacendi. > > Kind regards, > > Professor Alex Davis > > School of English > > University College Cork > > Ireland > > > > +353 (0)21 490 2185/2241/2664 > > ________________________________________ > From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [ > [log in to unmask]] on behalf of Kevin Kiely [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 22 September 2014 12:58 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Article on Seamus H > > Hello Tim, > > I am informally mid-work replying and say thanks for your honesty in > response. > > I don't think anyone would wish to raise obloquy to Mr S. H. because of his > genuine 'Mr Nice Guy' image. Me neither. > > You will well know that Shakespeare's dedicatee remains anonymous as Mr W. > H. 'the onlie begetter'; and this shares, with what I see as Mr S. H.s > anonymity in poetry, though SH has a conspicuous reputation which requires > sharper-analysis rather than the usual hosannas. I shouldn't add here but > do: what would EP have thought of SH? It's 'what if' in any event. > > SH's Frost (Robt.) obsession is provable and explains his subject matter, > if one can call it a subject-matter that matters, since SH is utterly 'down > on the farm' using subject matter more suitable to popular musicals as in > 'Oklahoma', 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' and 'Calamity Jane' - I am > being deliberately facetious and serious in mentioning these 3. Seamus is > stuck in the farmyard and not certainly with Dylan Thomas's dexterity on > the farmyard of eternal childhood. One may as well add to the ludicrous and > say that good fences make bad poets. I obviously do not mean Thomas. > > SH's 'Digging' is a frightful piece of trash-verse and reflects more on > those who admire it than SH and his willful buckets of nostalgia. > > While I can look into Frost (rarely): I have no obsession with his poetry. > SH had such a Frost obsession. O heck! > > My article in 'Village' I stand over and wonder what other publication > would have ever printed it. > > What is the history of criticism of poetry? It must be and is hierarchy > eventually, as Eliot, Lowell and all fair-minded poets and critics of those > high slopes show in their work including their criticism; Mr S. H. could > not abide Emily Dickinson and certainly not the Modernists, if anyone takes > the time to look into his own comments on them, and his begrudging Yeats is > clearly shown in his comments. > > Look the weather is fine here today. Hope you have fair weather where you > are, and that the year is progressing favourably. I am on the side of > poetry. SH would have been just as transparent writing snippets of Nature > Notes and verse for Outdoors Magazines. > > Best Wishes, > > KevinK > > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Timothy Redman <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > I agree. > > > > Cordially, > > > > Tim Redman > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Roxana Preda" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 1:42:26 PM > > Subject: Re: Article on Seamus H > > > > Dear all, > > > > There are a lot of Heaney enthusiasts among us, I am sure and Kevin's > > barbs will hurt enough to push them to discussion. If you follow the > > link to his article, as I did, you will see the comment box under the > > text. > > > > However, I think that on this list we should stick to Pound - there > > are plenty of controversial topics to discuss and lots of advertising > > to do re our work on old EP. > > > > Cheers, > > Roxana > > > > Quoting Kevin Kiely <[log in to unmask]> on Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:40:37 > > +0100: > > > > > Dear Roxana, > > > > > > I wish to alert members of the Pound List and on your website to an > > article > > > of mine on Seamus Heaney in 'Village Magazine' (Ireland). > > > > > > http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2014/08/5960/ > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. Kevin Kiely puts boot into Seamus Heaney > > > < > http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2014/08/5960/comment-page-1/ > > > > > > Village - 1 day ago > > > After his death last year the Independent newspaper describedSéamus > > > Heaney as “probably the best-known poet in the world”. According to > > ... > > > > > > > > > Kind Regards & Best Wishes as Autumn/Fall arrives, > > > > > > Kevin Kiely PhD > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > >