On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:31:40 -0500 wrote... > At about aged 20 I read his selected poems without knowing who he was. Later, when i mentioned his name to someone as a good poet, I was shunned. did not know why. Became interested. Found out that Pound and I shared interests in classical antiquity, the middle ages, and Chinese philosophy and culture. Further, I had read the American historian John Ridpath's eleven volume encyclopedic set entitled "The History of the World,"(pub 1896, took me two years) before going to college, so was, as I see it, first schooled outside of the academy that Pound so heavily criticized. Another draw. how did everyone become interested in pound? >myself: >my love of poetry eventually (and i'd think quite naturally) led me to him >at a young age (as i have already refered to). >just interested. >jeff. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > > There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, > there are only > eyes in all heads > to be looked out of > > -charles olson, from "letter 6" (of the maximus > poems) > > Robert E. Kibler Department of English University of Minnesota [log in to unmask] fortunatus et ille, deos qui novit agrestis, Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.