/lit/ - Literature

>>23353859
likewise, who's responsible for more bad poetry in the last century than anyone else? an antisemite

>>22437359
>>22440993
>"Him who disobeys me disobeys"
NOT LATINISATION OF MUH HECKING ENGLISH
ARGHHHHHH I'M GOING INSANEEEEE

>learns about freemasonry in the 50s
>loses his mind
Were masons not extremely well known? Why did he learn about them so late and have such an extreme reaction to it

Redpill me on Ezra Pound.

>>19568206
No, he was.

Why is it that almost 100% of the good literature we have today comes from people leaning left politically?

That didn't seem to be the case, let's say, a hundred years ago. Pic very related

>>18596661
>I want to like Tarkovsky but he’s a presumptuous asshole.
What he said there (in the quote you provided) isn't bad, but it isn't original in the slightest and has been said much better by countless professional thinkers, or by virtually every major artist (which does not include film makers) themselves.

>Artists are the antennae of the race.
>Greece and Rome civilized BY LANGUAGE. Your language is in the care of your writers. [...] Rome rose with the idiom of Caesar, Ovid, and Tacitus, she declined in a welter of rhetoric, the diplomat's 'language to conceal thought ', and so forth.
- Ezra Pound

It certainly does seem like he overvalued the worth of his own writing. But I'm sure it does include something useful about understanding his films.

Did Pound succeed in writing an epic (the Cantos), or does it just feel like a longer more complex version of his usual poems?

>>17870490
>Years ago a musician said to me: 'But isn't there a place where you can get it all [meaning all of poetry] as in Bach?' There isn't. I believe if a man will really learn Greek he can get nearly 'all of it ' in Homer. I have never read half a page of Homer without finding melodic invention, I mean melodic invention that I didn't already know. I have, on the other hand, found also in Homer the imaginary spectator, which in 1918 I still thought was Henry James' particular property. Homer says, 'an experienced soldier would have noticed'. The sheer literary qualities in Homer are such that a physician has written a book to prove that Homer must have been an army doctor. (When he describes certain blows and their effect, the wounds are said to be accurate, and the description fit for coroner's inquest.) Another French scholar has more or less shown that the geography of the Odyssey is correct geography; not as you would find it if you had a geography book and a map, but as it would be in a 'periplum ', that is, as a coasting sailor would find it. The news in the Odyssey is still news. Odysseus is still 'very human', by no means a stuffed shirt, or a pretty figure taken down from a tapestry. It is very hard to describe some of the homeric conversation, the irony, etc., without neologisms, which my publishers have suggested I eschew.
- Ezra Pound, Abc of Reading.

Is Arnaut Daniel really "the greatest poet ever to have lived" as Ezra Pound thought?

>>16415884
Very true.

>Shortly after Pound arrived in London in the early twentieth century, Ford Madox Ford described the young poet's clothes: he 'had trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend and an immense sombrero.

>>16235576
Not as stylish as Pound the based social butterfly.

>Shortly after Pound arrived in London in the early twentieth century, Ford Madox Ford described the young poet's clothes: he 'had trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend and an immense sombrero.

>>16147348
I'm a highly intelligent person and I'm a cool social cat.

>Shortly after Pound arrived in London in the early twentieth century, Ford Madox Ford described the young poet's clothes: he 'had trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend and an immense sombrero.
Imagine being so based as social butterfly Pound.

>“And as for the Australians, they deserve a Nippo-Chinese invasion. Criminals were their granddads, and their contribution to civilization is not such as to merit even a Jewish medal. Why the heck the Chinese and Japs don't combine and drive that dirt out of Australia, and set up a bit of civilization in those parts, is for me part of the mystery of the orient.”
— Ezra Pound on Australia

>>16078186
It's /Lit/, /Fit/ and /Out/. The true and pure /Fa/ can tag along and the spiritual naivete of the best of /Pol/ can do the same.

Description of Pound shortly after arriving in London:
>he 'had trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend and an immense sombrero.

>>16076781
based

>>16026474
Absolutely based, Pound was stylish and redpiled:
>he 'had trousers made of green billiard cloth, a pink coat, a blue shirt, a tie hand-painted by a Japanese friend and an immense sombrero.

Is the greatest poem ever written fascist in character?

>>15659794
cope (2)

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd ;
Petals on a wet, black bough".

These two lines are better than anything any of us will ever write. The synthesis of the oriental (haiku-like imagery and form) and classical tradition (subtle reference to the underworld,the faces of the dead as petals) on the background of modernity. A single impression perfectly and entirely rendered. The dynamic process of imagination shown through juxtaposition of images, without the use of a single verb. The reconciliation of modern life, classical beauty, and nature, all achieved in 14 words. And of course, the rush of pure joy I felt, the first time I read it, almost as good as having the girl you're in love with kiss you for the first time.

It's truly a shame that Pound abandoned the short form later on. I'm not well-read enough to appreciate the Cantos, but his early poetry will always be very close to my heart.

Is he secretly the most important literary figure of the 20th century?

>>15240757
>I don't think it's feasible for anyone to learn more than two or three languages to a high enough level to read the literature of said language and sustain it.
You set a low bar for yourself and are now coping. Polygots existed and still do

>>15235318
Young pound was a chadlet

>>15178500
https://youtu.be/u0wc28wK7S0