tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8552493069294424222..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Robinson Jeffers: Evening EbbUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25894091433151662522010-03-16T08:02:12.324-07:002010-03-16T08:02:12.324-07:00Yes, Pound seems sort of torn between like Alex Ha...Yes, Pound seems sort of torn between like Alex Hamilton/Madison etc and ...Dante. <br /><br />Or maybe EP was actually...mad, or became so. The speeches for Il Duce sound rather hysterical and frenzied, even as propaganda. Other ex-pats turned ...rats generally sounded cool and mocking--like the American college gal (can't recall her name--Berlin Susie or something) who broadcast for the...nazis. The germans actually had massive loudspeakers planted near battle zones where US grunts would hear her velvety tones, in perfect English calling them kikes, f**gs, cuckolds, etcJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88483318650718716302010-03-16T05:33:09.183-07:002010-03-16T05:33:09.183-07:00J,
I came to this after picking up our conversati...J,<br /><br />I came to this after picking up our conversation <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-herrick-comming-of-good-luck.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and now see that some of what was said there dovetails with what's going on here, the Pound remarks especially.<br /><br />EP's Dante warped into EP's neo-enlightenment mind...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45149954761568616682010-03-15T07:56:35.284-07:002010-03-15T07:56:35.284-07:00JeffersSpeak works for me, tho' his cool, sto...JeffersSpeak works for me, tho' his cool, stoical poems about the Big Sur/Carmel coast also produce a slightly uneasy feeling, probably due to the connotations of Carmel and the tacky chateaus of pebble beach and its corporate fairways (no bohemians reside in those districts...). <br /><br />--the modernist mafia/Ez Pound considered RJ a rustic supposedly. Shrieking of things Pound, I linked to your recent interview and then a few of my humble attempts at understanding Pound/Cantos (there's quite a bit online now). My italiano not so great, but ...I get most of it--<br /><br />The quoted Canto seems right out of Dante's malebolge, really, but retrofitted with anglo bankers and WASPs. I believe that Pound, like the more rational members of the Founding Fathers, detested Calvinism (and all that it implied), and considered it one of the great disruptions of ... modern life etc.--not sure if that means he was a catholic, but Aristotelian in a sense (rather than just neo-platonist as some lit. types insist).Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com