Well said, Ric, and good question! John Makin. > ---------- > From: Richard Caddel[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 10:34 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Basil Bunting > > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:36:56 -0400, you wrote: > > >Ric Caddel, are you out there? If so, I want to get the Durham > >University Studies volume on Bunting. Can you help? > > > >Burt Hatlen > > Thanks for the opportunity for the commercial break, Burt: that's: > Sharp Study and Long Toil: Basil Bunting Special Issue ed. R. Caddel; > Durham University Journal Suppement, 1995. Price £10.00, Cheques > (Sterling only, I'm afraid) made to University of Durham. Orders to: > Basil Bunting Poetry Centre, Durham University Library, Palace Green, > Durham DH1 3RN, UK. > > On page 101 of this publication (in an article by John Seed) is a > quote from a letter, BB to EP, 1938, which is relevant to the present > discussion on this list: > > "Every anti-semitism, anti-niggerism, anti-moorism, that I can recall > in history was base, had its foundation in the meanest kind of envy > and in greed. It makes me sick to see you covering yourself with that > filth. It is not an arguable question, has not been arguable for at > least nineteen centuries... it is hard to see how you are going to > stop the rot of your mind and heart without a pretty thoroughgoing > repudiation of what you have spent a lot of work on." > > Everyone knows, from BB's flyleaf-of-pound's-cantos ode about a decade > later, how enduring Bunting's respect for Pound was. My question is: > who else from the poetry world, apart from BB, was calling Pound wrong > in such unequivocal terms, in 1938? > > Richard Caddel, Durham >