Friday, February 27, 2015

Poetry, February 1915

Just quick notes for now, because, dissertation, but I will return to this issue when Pound completes the essay on the Renaissance that he begins in it, and compare that to his recent "Affirmation" on the same topic. Exciting! Well, perhaps not.

Quick Notes:

Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, and Richard Aldington all get printed in this one. Lindsay's poem is kind of painful Chinoiserie, but note how it dovetails with Pound's essay's Chinese thesis.  Aldington's poem to Nijinsky, "Dancers," is notable for the quotation that is its last line: "Mon sembable, mon frere!" So, is the line in The Waste Land an extended quotation of a quotation? I'm having fun picturing Aldington reading The Waste Land for the first time. His A Fool i' the Forest is clearly his attempt at a Waste Land...

Pathetic post! All for now, because I need to do my post on The Egoist before the end of the month. And work on the dissertation!

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