ITT: literary charlatans
ITT: literary charlatans
Thomas Phillips
Colton Edwards
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Ryder Mitchell
Another quality thread.
Can you provide an argument or was this thread just created to harvest (You)s?
Nathan Gomez
Can you provide and argument as to why Ezra Pound is a serious artist and critic?
Dominic Baker
Well, you've made that statement, therefore you should justify.
What's your opinion about Ezra? Do you even have an opinion?
John Mitchell
Ezra Pound could do in a couple lines what would take some people several stanzas to do.
Daniel Hill
Yeah we know he ripped off the japs both in style and in love of fascism. Can you make one argument in favor of efficiency in literature that can't be used to delegitimize half of the silly bitches Ez paid to be better than him?
Nathaniel Thomas
Give me one example of above-average verse from Pound that actually achieves his own ideals of "musicality" and "precision". As far as I can tell, a lot of Pound's verse is impossibly vague and unmusical, and only exist to show off his questionable erudition. Is there any imagism in Pound better than, say, that which can be found in the odes of Keats?
David Wright
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Dominic Ramirez
Ezra Pound is my favorite poet because he drives lefties bonkers with rage. It infuriates them that a fascist was not only smarter, more creative, and more successful than they could ever dream of being, but he was also better looking and better dressed. I've never actually read a poem by him, but I don't think it's necessary since his supremacy is so plainly obvious. The lefties can lash out at him with resentment and envy, but his status as their intellectual superior is ultimately invulnerable to their tantrums