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Where do I start when reading Pound?

>> No.16967147

do none of you useless niggers read poetry holy shit

>> No.16967828

>>16967147
No. I've read some of "Des Imagistes". I liked it. See for yourself if you like it too.

>> No.16967832

>>16966995
Pound his arze (ezra spelt backwards lol)

>> No.16967870

>>16966995
go pound sand

>> No.16967877

>>16967870
nigger

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16967880

> Pound's "based" because he didn't like the jews!

>> No.16967885

>>16967832
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolmao

>> No.16967893

>>16967880
jewish fragility right here

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>>16967147
>Of course, but I only read epic poetry such the Song of Roland and Orlando Furioso

>> No.16967997

>>16966995
Some Pound poems I like a lot, others leave me stone cold. The good ones are dotted all through his output so you have to look at everything. Also (especially in the Cantos) you might find an occasional scintillating line or stanza in the middle of a dreary wasteland.

Your tastes are going to vary, but for what it's worth, I particularly like:
>The Needle
>The Return
>The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
>A Girl
>Itė

The Cantos are patchy, as I said:

>Canto 2
It's just a translation of the story from Ovid where the pirates kidnap some kid to sell him into slavery and then find too late that he's a god and they're in trouble. But it's the best translation I've read of this passage. When EP wanted to be, he was casually brilliant. That's why the Cantos are frustrating — they could have been awesome if he'd just toned down the obscurity and ranting.

>Canto 30
The first dozen lines are good. "Pity spareth so many an evil thing" is kino. But after that, he loses me.

>Canto 45 (Usura)
This is great.

>Canto 81
The first part of this means little or nothing to me but the passage beginning "What thou lovest well remains" is as good as anything he ever wrote.

Of his prose, I liked
>ABC of reading
even though his tastes are a bit idiosyncratic. It's written in a very aphoristic style and has lots of good, quotable sentences.

>Guide To Kulchur
was OK as well but had a bit too much obscure ranting (like the Cantos).

>The wartime broadcasts
(the stuff that got him arrested for treason) are interesting but overly dense and obscure (for me, at least). There are certainly gems in there but he makes no effort to calm down and argue his case like a semi-normal person.

>> No.16968072

>>16966995
This is one of the few times when you really do need to start with the Greeks
If you didn't have a classical education you've not going to understand the references

>> No.16968854

>>16966995
>p*etry