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9619443 No.9619443 [Reply] [Original]

Why have you not read "The Cantos" by Ezra Pound yet?

Hemingway wrote: "The best of Pound's writing—and it is in the Cantos—will last as long as there is any literature."

>> No.9619451

Because

>'Any good I've done has been spoiled by bad intentions—the preoccupation with irrelevant and stupid things,' [he] replied. Then very slowly, with emphasis, surely conscious of Ginsberg's being Jewish: 'But the worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-semitism.

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>>9619443
Saved this post about how to get into the cantos

Always meant to just never had time plus scary oriental letters

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>>9619459
here, if you're really interested in reading the Cantos, have this.

https://mega.nz/#!QAAhnAKS!5tQFZX-jzRH3inSOg-rZZkWaE-3llEabt0LPG5WOYQE

>> No.9619588

because literature is dead.

literature departments in academic institutions are the equivalent of respite homes for the geriatric and dementing

>> No.9619591

>>9619588
p.s. take the red pill

>> No.9619598

>>9619591
>redpill

you have to go back

>> No.9619608

I am rereading Greek myths, the Illiad, Odyssey, Sappho and Hesiod. I've got an anthology of European poetry from the troubadours, truvers and middle ages. I have a book of Tao and Confucius, and Dante's Inferno. I have also got The Illuminations.

I will tackle the Cantos, so help me god.

>> No.9619663

>>9619583
Thanks, anon.

>> No.9619669

>>9619451

>implying he's talking about his own bad intentions and that of the people around him
>implying he's referring to the cantos
>implying he wasn't senile by that point

and most of all

>implying the worth of work is in anyway related to the personality/life of the author or his own comments on it.

Are you ready to renounce the Aeneid just because Virgil thought it was shit and wanted to burn it?

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>>9619443
Because they're garbage. Pound was the definition of a pseud.

If I was impressed by babby tier mathematism I'd be teaching high school calculus not reading poetry.

>> No.9619687

>>9619669
>Are you ready to renounce the Aeneid just because Virgil thought it was shit and wanted to burn it?

Yes

>> No.9619797

>>9619443
with usura no man hath a house of good stone

>>9619588
houellebecq is pretty good. there are a couple others. this story by some anon faggot a few days ago is good http://www.fluland.com/2017/06/07/ascendency-by-__________/

academic literature departments =/ literature lol

>> No.9620656

bump I love Pounding ass tbqh

>> No.9620683

>>9619797
>houellebecq is pretty good

he's not even literature. he's pop fiction you would buy at an airport to read on a beach whilst on holiday.

>> No.9620762

>>9619669
>Are you ready to renounce the Aeneid just because Virgil thought it was shit and wanted to burn it?
JUST because Virgil thought it was shit? No.

>> No.9620770

>>9620683
All you're saying is that he's relevant and successful