Cantos

The most that can be said for The Cantos is that the method is interesting and that it is littered with fine phrases, but both of these advantages are totally obscured by Pound's lugubrious insistence upon simply dropping the name of a vague historical personage upon the page, meaning to evoke something only to have that evocation stand totally stagnant among a dozen other disparate images. An interesting essay might be written about Pound, but he is unreadable. He was an economist at best, and his poems read like the densest tome of that most dismal science.

You should take some with in your eyes potential and cut and edit and expand on lines to make it better.

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they are supposed to be read outloud: on a barge, on the beach, in the forrest, in a church, near a waterfall, to a deer, under a gazebo in the rain, (all of these scenarios surrounded by at least 12 women all wearing white semi see through gowns/dresses), at the top of a tower/parking garage, and outside starbucks with a fedora for money on the ground

Legitimately kek'd. I think Ezra was the true genius between him and Eliot tho. Both are over hyped.

Agreed. Ezra is an engineer not a poet

I got the Cantos as a present and haven't actually tackled them yet. Don't have the Companion so I am going to have to research/annotate them myself as I go.

I agree I think they are maybe unreasonably obscure - one of the duties of literature is to GET ITSELF READ, and maybe the Cantos just make too many demands - but we'll see.

I've read a fair bit of his other stuff, and much of it just leaves me stone cold, but on occasion he is just so darned good that I know he isn't an idiot, even if I can't always make out what he's burbling on about.

So I am prepared to give him a certain amount of slack.

Just admit you hate him because he was a fascist and his writing wasn't effeminate.

Not at all, although I find just the reverse - I find that people like him now as a rebound against so many people having disliked him on the basis of his bio - all of this is purely personal. On a strictly poetic level Pound cannot stand

I have the Terrel companion but even that hardly suffices. Terrell enumerates the images but does not clarify the reason of their conjuring - Terrell shows you the pixels but not the picture - here’s a page I read today and marked up

>I think Ezra was the true genius between him and Eliot tho. Both are over hyped.
I think comments such as yours downgrade your 'overhype' tag to tip the scales to underhyped, so be careful with your criticism sir, it just may have an opposite effect.

I dont think either can be so brushed away nonchalantly with a few of your words and thoughts. I have not read much pound at all, and have only read some elliot but I have found quite a bit of awe in the elliot I have read, enough to not make me state words similar to the ones you have