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Ezra Pound: visionary poet or complete wackjob?

>> No.1467059

>>1467058

who gives a fuck when we have T.S Eliot?

>> No.1467060
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The years were not kind.

>> No.1467066

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

>> No.1467070

Pretty much a wackjob.

His poetry wasn't very good, his translations were even worse. He liked to hang around the good poets and criticize. Pound felt entitled but deserved nothing.

The Cantos were lousy.

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>>1467070

I bought the Cantos and can't even fucking understand them.

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According to this image which floated around on early /lit/, Pound thinks Golding's Ovid is the best work of English poetry ever.

That disqualifies him as a poet, an author, and a human being.

(That's not to say Golding's Ovid translation isn't good.)

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>>1467060
He was a good looking young man, at least.

>> No.1467153

Wow, his Cantos. Like half a dozen were good and the others were fucking wordsalads.

>> No.1467171

>>1467101
>That disqualifies him as a poet, an author, and a human being.
You might be overreacting

>> No.1467175

>>1467060

dude, he's old as fuck in those pictures. To me, this is what old men look like. he's not ugly. he's not good looking. He just is.

>> No.1467208

>>1467101
All he says in that image is, "This book is a good example of narrative English-language poetry. Check it out, you might like it!"

Not really a problem.

>> No.1467256

>>1467059
>implying the Americans don't own TS Eliot

>> No.1467279

I studied The River Merchant's Wife when I was in secondary and I fucking hated it. Had to sent away a folio of essays and shit that year and for the poetry I did Heaney instead of that shite. Heaney's still awful though.

Now I'm studying Heaney again. Joy.