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8518252 No.8518252 [Reply] [Original]

why can't people of today think or write like these bros?

>> No.8518253

>>8518252
>2 0 1 6
>thinking and writing like a dead cis white male from the western canon

you are not getting far friendo

>> No.8518254

because we have music, novels, films, and they didn't have much, so they could focus on writing, ezra pound even said something like that about old masters of poetry

>> No.8518256

>>8518254
>we have music
stopped reading there lmfao

>> No.8518268

>>8518252
>>8518254
Jealousy of vigorous-living men has perhaps led in all times to a deformation of criticism and a distorted glorification of the past. Motive does not concern us, but error does. Glorifiers of the past commonly err in their computations because they measure the work of a present DECADE against the best work of a past century or even of a whole group of centuries.
Obviously one man or six men can’t produce as many metrical triumphs in five years or in twenty, as five hundred troubadours, with no cinema, no novels, no radio to distract ’em, produced between 1050 and 1300. And the same applies in all departments.
~ABC of reading, Ezra Pound

>> No.8518283

They can do both but much better.

>> No.8518365

>>8518252
Will laurels ever come back into style?

>> No.8518567

>>8518254
>>8518268
thats just pound justifying his terrible work in front of the old masters

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>>8518365
What, for men?
If they wear them, half of their peers call them fags. You tell me if they'll ever come back en vogue .