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In After Strange Gods—the Page-Barbour Lectures that Eliot delivered at the University of Virginia in 1933— Tommy referred to Pound as “probably the most important living poet in our language” and to Yeats as “the other important poet of our time,” while subjecting both poets to rebuke.
ellauri053.html on line 1193: Helppoa: se oli mustankipeä. Tomppa ja Jästi were associates from time to time but not companions. Yeats and Pound make a different relation: they were friends and remained friends, especially after the three winters they spent in Stone Cottage, Coleman’s Hatch, Sussex. The friendship continued over the years and found fulfillment in a shared Rapallo. Dobby ja Jästi ilosteli Rapallon mökissä veturinkuljettajana ja lämmittäjänä, kuraverinen Tomppa palloili kateena ulkopuolella.
ellauri053.html on line 1367: Yeats's friendship with Gonne ended when in Paris in 1908, they finally consummated their relationship. "The long years of fidelity rewarded at last" was how another of his lovers described the event. (Bet it was Ezra Pound.) Yeats was less sentimental and later remarked that "the tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul." (Aika narsistinen penselmä.) The relationship did not develop into a new phase after their night together, and soon afterwards Gonne wrote to the poet indicating that despite the physical consummation, they could not continue as they had been. She recommended Yeats to concentrate on other men.
ellauri053.html on line 1368: Yeats met the American poet Ezra Pound in 1909. Pound had travelled to London at least partly to meet the older man, whom he considered "the only poet worthy of serious study." From that year until 1916, the two men wintered in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as Yeats's secretary. The relationship got off to a rocky start when Pound arranged for the publication in the magazine Poetry of some of Yeats's verse with Pound's own unauthorised alterations. These changes reflected Pound's distaste for Victorian prosody.
ellauri054.html on line 529: Joo Tennysonkaan ei jaxanut lukea Sordelloa muuta kun ekan ja vikan rivin. Ylläri, Ezra Poundin mielestä se oli mainio. Ei Tennyson ois jaxanut lukee Ezrankaan jaarituxia. Onnexi se oli kuollut jo. Tai siis molemmat on. Koko porukka.
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ellauri074.html on line 429: Saku arveli aivan oikein, että nazismin menekkiin osasyyllisiä oli fasistikirjailijat kuten Pound, Heidegger, Hamsun, Céline yms. Hiukka epäilyttävä Faulkner halusi vapauttaa 1954 Poundin hourulasta, mutta Saku vastusti. Tää oli pahinta McCarthyn aikaa, nykyisen kaltaista oikeistoaaltoa. Sillon se muuten johtui vähän vastaavasta syystä kuin nyt, ryssät sai rakennetuksi oman atomipommin ja USA:n maailmanherruus näytti romahtavan. MAGAsta oli kymysys silloinkin. Nyt rinnalle ja ohi on keulimassa Kiina.
ellauri110.html on line 701: Veneziassa Kristiina pissii hunajaa, Hande näyttää tympääntynyttä naamaa kun se ei ole keskipisteenä ja Kristiina osaa italiaa paremmin. Tuolta löytyy (ällön) Ezra Poundin hauta. Saa olla laitimmainen kerta tuumii mauton Hannu Mäkelä. En pidä siitä minkä näen, siis pilaan sen vaimoltanikin. Tuttu juttu sanoisi Natachan lentokapteeni. Barbadoxen matka muistuu mieleen, ja Palermo.
ellauri115.html on line 285: Mutta tiesittekö että Michel Montaigne oli puolikikkelen ja puoligullit, eli sen äiskä oli sefardijuutalainen ja iskä goy? Tämän tiedon sain antisemiittikolleegaltani Ezra Poundilta. Ja 
sivusto sen vahvistaa:
ellauri141.html on line 800: Dag Hammarskjöld was committed to the arts. Though temperamentally a loner, and introvert, and a bachelor throughout his life (oliko se homo? Det finns inga bevis för att Dag Hammarskjöld var homosexuell. Misstankar verkar dock ha funnits: Eftersom han levde ensam började rykten spridas om att han skulle vara homosexuell och hans motståndare använde detta för att smutskasta honom), he would invite intellectuals and artists, the best of New York’s bohemia, to his Upper East Side apartment where he kept a pet, an African monkey called Greenback. People he invited to his generous dinners included the poet Carl Sandburg, the novelist John Steinbeck, the poet WH Auden, the diplomat George Kennan. Auden was the translator of Hammarskjöld’s posthumously published book of observations, ideas and poems called Waymarks. Hammarskjöld used his influence to get the poet Ezra Pound out of mental hospital. Back in Sweden, he inherited his father’s chair at the Swedish academy when the man died in 1953. The Swedish academy is the body that awards the Nobel Prize in literature. Hammarskjöld was instrumental in getting the rather obscure but doubtless brilliant French poet Saint John Perse his Nobel prize in 1960. He would sketch out the arguments for Perse’s candidacy during translation breaks at UN Security Council meetings.
ellauri145.html on line 731: Close-packed, linked to the ocean and his Breton roots, and tinged with disdain for Romantic sentimentalism, his work is also characterised by its idiomatic play and exceptional modernity. He was praised by both Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot (whose work he had a great influence on). Many subsequent modernist poets have also studied him, and he has often been translated into English.
ellauri146.html on line 668: The concern of the Pounder to advance republican ideals and republican politics among the students of the University was not notably effectual with one student at least: Poe was not receptive to Jeffersonian liberalism. But many of the impressions which Poe received at Charlottesville, both within and without the lecture rooms, must have remained with him. The young admirer of classic grandeur, we know, was impressed by the graceful Rotunda. About Poe at Virginia, Philip Alexander Bruce writes as follows:
ellauri155.html on line 892: Like William James, his friend and mentor, he wrote philosophy in a literary way. Ezra Pound includes Santayana among his many cultural references in The Cantos, notably in "Canto LXXXI" and "Canto XCV". Santayana is usually considered an American writer, although he declined to become an American citizen, resided in Fascist Italy for decades, and said that he was most comfortable, intellectually and aesthetically, at Oxford University. Although an atheist, Santayana considered himself an "aesthetic Catholic" and spent the last decade of his life in a Roman residence under Catholic nuns. It felt a little like his young days under William James. He held racial superiority and eugenic views. He believed superior races should be discouraged from "intermarriage with inferior stock". Maybe that was why he had no kids.
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ellauri160.html on line 75: (Li Bai) (Ezra Pound)
ellauri160.html on line 80: Li poikkesi muista Tang-kauden suurista runoilijoista siinä, ettei hän koskaan suorittanut virkatutkintoa eikä hänellä ollut akatemiauransa jälkeen virallista asemaa Vuonna 756 Li liittyi keisarin 16. pojan prinssi Lin johtamien joukkoihin runoilijana. Hieman myöhemmin prinssi Litä syytettiin pyrkimyksestä perustaa oma valtiona ja hänet teloitettiin. Li Bai joutui vangiksi Jiujiangissa, josta hänet karkotettiin Yelangiin. Ennen hänen sinne saapumistaan annettiin kuitenkin käsky yleistä armahduksesta, jonka ansiosta Li saattoi palata Itä-Kiinaan. Li kuoli tiettävästi sukulaisensa luona vuonna 762 Dangtussa Anhuin maakunnassa. Tuskin tunnetun legendan mukaan hän hukkui pudottuaan veneestä yrittäessään juovuspäissään tavoitella kuun kuvajaista. Juu, Li Po ja Ezra Pound on aika samixia, paizi että Li Po ei ole yhtä misogyyninen paskiainen kuin Ezra Pound.
ellauri160.html on line 88: Kari Aronpuro löysi epähuomiossa hukkaamansa Poundin uudelleen ollessaan kirjastonhoitajana Kemissä. Vuonna 1974 häneltä oli ilmestynyt kokoelma Moskovan ikävä.
ellauri160.html on line 89: – Huomasin, että olin huonossa hapessa, ja rupesin miettimään, että mitä pitäisi tehdä. Silloin ilmestyi myös edellinen ja ainut Poundilta kokonaisen kirjan verran suomennettu runoteos, Tuomas Anhavan kääntämä valikoima Personae .
ellauri160.html on line 91: – Sen luin tarkkaan ja tunsin oppineenikin jotain. Samoihin aikoihin hankin Poundin cantojen koko laitoksen, jossa on kaikki 120 runoa. Mutta sitten semiotiikka ja mannermainen filosofia veivät mukanaan. Pound jäi.
ellauri160.html on line 93: Kolmas kerta toden sanoi. Kari Aronpuro palkittiin Ylen Kääntäjäkarhu -palkinnolla kolme vuotta kestäneestä suomennosurakasta eli Ezra Poundin Pisan cantoista.
ellauri160.html on line 95: Nootit on tutkijoiden ja kääntäjien kollektiivisesti vuosikymmenten aikana luoma Pound-ensyklopedia. Pisan cantoissa jokainen sana on kuin lukko, jonka avaamiseen avain haetaan teoksen huomautuksia osiosta. Poundin lukeminen on yhtä selaamista runojen ja noottien välillä. Runoja selittävä osio on yli 30 sivua suurempi kuin itse runojen osuus kirjassa.
ellauri160.html on line 96: – Pound keksi cantojen myötä tavallaan hypertekstin. Cantoja olisi ehkä kaikkein kätevin lukea linkitettynä nettiversiona.
ellauri160.html on line 98: Yhdysvaltalainen Ezra Pound oli äänekäs Mussolinin ihailija ja fasistien toimeksiannosta Rooman radion kolumnisti. Kun sota päättyi ja USA:n armeija miehitti Italian, Pound vangittiin epäiltynä maanpetoksesta. Häntä uhkasi kuolemantuomio.
ellauri160.html on line 100: Pound aloitti Pisan cantojen kirjoittamisen kanaverkkohäkissä. Hän vietti vankeudessa ensimmäiset 24 päivää ulkona auringonpaahteessa, sateessa, pölyssä ja öisin valonheittimien alla mieli järkkyneenä.
ellauri160.html on line 103: – Täytyy ihailla Poundia, joka pystyi siteeraamaan cantoissa ulkomuistista Danten Jumalaista näytelmää siellä vankileirissä. Samoin Homeroksen Odysseiaa. Niitähän hänellä ei ollut siellä ja ne menevät ihan oikein.
ellauri160.html on line 105: Sen sijaan Poundilla oli luettavana Time-lehtiä, sattumalta yksi englantilaisen runouden antologia ja raamattu. Näitä kaikkia hän myös käyttää runoissa hyödykseen. – Ei Pound elänyt tätä päivää vaan hän eli kolmen tuhannen vuoden janan sisällä.
ellauri160.html on line 107: Kun Aronpuro oli saanut suomennoksen tehtyä, hänessä heräsi halu kirjoittaa perusteelliset jälkisanat, luoda kokovartalokuva runoilijasta. Aronpuron mielestä Ezra Poundista on korostettu vain kahta puolta.
ellauri160.html on line 108: – On klassisen kiinan ja muun antiikin runouden kääntäjä Pound ja runoilija Pound, mutta ei ole haluttu muistaa ekonomisti Poundia eikä Mussoliinia ihailevaa fasisti Poundia.
ellauri160.html on line 109: Aronpuro tuo esiin Poundista myös mm. uusplatonistin, misogynistin, eli naisten vihaajan sekä antisemitistin.
ellauri160.html on line 110: – Ja Poundin, joka halusi syrjäyttää länsimaisten juutalaisten heimouskontojen alkeelliset muodot - siis kristinuskon - ja tuoda konfutselaisuuden sen tilalle. Valitettavasti se ei onnistunut.
ellauri160.html on line 112: Pound on paljolti runoilijoiden runoilija. Hänen runoutensa on vaativaa luettavaa. Lukijoidensa suhteen Poundilla olikin korkeat odotukset.
ellauri160.html on line 113: – Poundin hyvä lukija "gentle reader" ilman muuta osaa Iliaan ja Odysseian alkukielellä ja Danten Jumalaisen näytelmänkin. Konfutsensa hän tuntee joko ranskan tai englanninkielisenä käännöksenä.
ellauri160.html on line 117: – Tunnistan Poundin arvon modernismin ja postmodernismin peruskalliona. Mutta ensirakkauden minussa, juopottelevassa palloilijanuorukaisessa, synnytti aikoinaan Poundin kääntämä Li Pon runonide Cathay vuodelta 1915. Ensirakkaus elää ja voi hyvin. Cantoista Aronpuro on jo päästänyt irti.
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ellauri160.html on line 122: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972), modernin ajan Li Bai, was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Hizi noi cantothan on selvä kokoelma paasauxia!
ellauri160.html on line 124: Pound was born in 1885 in a two-story cupboard house in Hailey, Idaho Territory, the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858–1942) and Isabel Weston (1860–1948), who married in 1884. Homer had worked in Hailey since 1883 as registrar of the General Land Office. Pound's grandfather, Thaddeus Coleman Pound, a Republican Congressman and the 10th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, had secured him the appointment. Homer had previously worked for Thaddeus in the lumber business.
ellauri160.html on line 126: Both sides of Pound's family emigrated from England in the 17th century. On his father's side, the immigrant ancestor was John Pound, a Quaker who arrived from England around 1650. Ezra's paternal grandmother, Susan Angevine Loomis, married Thaddeus Coleman Pound. On his mother's side, Pound was descended from William Wadsworth, a Puritan who emigrated to Boston on the Lion in 1632. Captain Joseph Wadsworth helped to write the Connecticut constitution. The Wadsworths married into the Westons of New York; Harding Weston and Mary Parker were Pound's maternal grandparents. After serving in the military, Harding remained unemployed, so his brother Ezra Weston and Ezra's wife, Frances Amelia Wessells Freer (Aunt Frank), helped to look after Isabel, Pound's mother. No oliko Pound sitten sukua myös Henry "setelitukun väärti" Longfellowille? Varmaan niin.
ellauri160.html on line 128: Pound's education began in dame schools: Miss Elliott's school in Jenkintown in 1892 and the Heathcock family's Chelten Hills School in Wyncote in 1893. Known as "Ra" (pronounced "Ray"), he attended Wyncote Public School from September 1894. His first publication was on 7 November 1896 in the Jenkintown Times-Chronicle ("by E. L. Pound, Wyncote, aged 11 years"), a limerick about William Jennings Bryan, who had just lost the 1896 presidential election.
ellauri160.html on line 132: In 1901 Pound was admitted, aged 15, to the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts. Years later he said his aim was to avoid drill at the military academy. His one distinction in first year was in geometry, but otherwise his grades were mostly poor, including in Latin, his major; he achieved a B in English composition and a pass in English literature. In his second year he switched from the degree course to "non-degree special student status", he said "to avoid irrelevant subjects". He was not elected to a fraternity at Penn, but it seemed not to bother him.
ellauri160.html on line 136: From September 1907 Pound taught French and Spanish at Wabash College, a Presbyterian college with 345 students in Crawfordsville, Indiana, which he called "the sixth circle of hell". Se oli Ezran Kouvola. One former student remembered him as a breath of fresh air; another said he was "exhibitionist, egotistic, self-centered and self-indulgent".
ellauri160.html on line 140: In January and February 1909, after the death of John Churton Collins left a vacancy, Pound lectured for an hour a week in the evenings on "The Development of Literature in Southern Europe" at the Regent Street Polytechnic.
ellauri160.html on line 141: Mornings might be spent in the British Museum Reading Room, followed by lunch at the Vienna Café on Oxford Street, where Pound first met Wyndham Lewis in 1910. "There were mysterious figures / that emerged from recondite recesses / and ate at the WIENER CAFÉ". Ford Madox Ford described Pound as "approaching with the step of a dancer, making passes with a cane at an imaginary opponent":
ellauri160.html on line 145: At a literary salon in 1909, Pound met the novelist Olivia Shakespear and later at the Shakespears' home at 12 Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, was introduced to her daughter, Dorothy, who became Pound's wife in 1914. The critic Iris Barry described her as "carrying herself delicately with the air, always, of a young Victorian lady out skating, and a profile as clear and lovely as that of a porcelain Kuan-yin".
ellauri160.html on line 149: London found Pound amusing. The newspapers interviewed him, and he was mentioned in Punch magazine, which on 23 June 1909 described "Mr. Ezekiel Ton" as "the most remarkable thing in poetry since Robert Browning ... blending the imagery of the unfettered West, the vocabulary of Wardour Street, and the sinister abandon of Borgiac Italy". The phrase "Wardour Street English" denotes the use of near-obsolete words for effect, such as anent; this derives from the once great number of antique shops in the area. anent means about, concerning. Did you know?
ellauri160.html on line 151: Rupert Brooke complained in the Cambridge Review that Pound had fallen under the influence of Walt Whitman, writing in "unmetrical sprawling lengths that, in his hands, have nothing to commend them". But he did acknowledge that Pound had "great talents".
ellauri160.html on line 153: In June 1910 Pound returned for eight months to the United States. Although he loved New York, he felt alienated by the commercialism and newcomers from Eastern and Southern Europe who were displacing the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The recently built New York Public Library Main Branch he found especially offensive. It was during this period that his antisemitism became apparent; he referred in Patria Mia to the "detestable qualities" of Jews.
ellauri160.html on line 160: In The Cantos, Possum is T. S. Eliot: "but the lot of 'em, Yeats, Possum and Wyndham / had no ground beneath 'em." In the New Age office in 1918, he also met C. H. Douglas, a British engineer who was developing his economic theory of social credit, which Pound found attractive. Douglas reportedly believed that Jews were a problem and needed to abandon a Messianic view of themselves as the "dominating race". According to Colin Holmes, the New Age itself published antisemitic material. It was within this environment, not in Italy, according to Tim Redman, that Pound first encountered antisemitic ideas about "usury". In Douglas's program," Pound had found his true muse: a blend of folkloric Celtic twilight with a paranoid hatred of the money economy and a dire suspicion about an ancient tent people's faith."
ellauri160.html on line 162: Imagisme oli Ezran ja Eliza Doolittlen kexintö in the spring or early summer of 1912. They agreed, Pound wrote in 1918, on three principles:
ellauri160.html on line 171: Poetry published Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagist" in March 1913. Superfluous words, particularly adjectives, should be avoided (Ahha! This is where Stephen King comes in) as well as expressions like "dim lands of peace". He wrote: "It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Just say 'lands'." Poets should "go in fear of abstractions". He wanted Imagisme "to stand for hard light, clear edges", he wrote later to Amy Lowell.
ellauri160.html on line 173: The New England poet Amy Lowell, who was to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926, was apparently unhappy that only one of her poems had appeared in Des Imagistes. Ford Madox Hueffer announced that he had been an Imagiste long before Lowell and Pound, and that he doubted their qualifications.
ellauri160.html on line 174: During the subsequent row, Pound left the table and returned with a tin bathtub on his head, suggesting it as a symbol of what he called Les Nagistes, a school created by Lowell's poem "In a Garden", which ends with "Night, and the water, and you in your whiteness, bathing!" Apparently his behavior helped Lowell win people over to her point of view, as did her offer to fund future work.
ellauri160.html on line 176: H.D. and Aldington were moving away from Pound's understanding of Imagisme anyway, as he aligned himself with Lewis's ideas. Lowell agreed to finance an annual anthology of Imagiste poets, but she insisted on democracy; according to Aldington, she "proposed a Boston Tea Party for Ezra" and an end to his despotic rule. Upset at Lowell, Pound began to call Imagisme "Amygism"; he declared the movement dead and asked the group not to call themselves Imagistes. Not accepting that it was Pound's invention, they refused and Anglicized the term.
ellauri160.html on line 178: In the summer of 1913 Pound became literary editor of The Egoist, a journal founded by the suffragette Dora Marsden. At the suggestion of W. B. Yeats, Pound encouraged James Joyce in December of that year to submit his work. Harriet Shaw Weaver accepted it for The Egoist, which serialized it from 2 February 1914, despite the printers objecting to words like "fart" and "ballocks", and fearing prosecution over Stephen Dedalus's thoughts about prostitutes. Joyce wrote to Yeats: "I can never thank you enough for having brought me into relation with your friend Ezra Pound who is indeed a miracle worker."
ellauri160.html on line 180: This was the first of three winters Pound and Yeats spent at Stone Cottage, including two with Dorothy after she and Ezra married in 1914. "Canto LXXXIII" records a visit: "so that I recalled the noise in the chimney / as it were the wind in the chimney / but was in reality Uncle William / downstairs composing / that had made a great Peeeeacock / in the proide ov his oiye."
ellauri160.html on line 182: Samuel Putnam knew Pound in Paris in the 1920s and described him as stubborn, contrary, cantankerous, bossy, touchy, and "devoid of humor"; he was "an American small-towner", in Putnam's view. His attitude caused him trouble in both London and Paris. English women, with their "preponderantly derivative" minds, were inferior to American women who had minds of their own, he wrote in the New Age. The English sense of what was right was based on respect for property, not morality. "Perched on the rotten shell of a crumbling empire", London had lost its energy. England's best authors—Conrad, Hudson, James, and Yeats—were not English. English writers and critics were ignorant, he wrote in 1913.
ellauri160.html on line 188: On 22 September 1914 T. S. Eliot traveled from Merton College, Oxford, with an introduction from Conrad Aiken, to have Pound read Eliot's unpublished "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Pound wrote to Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry, on 30 September to say that Eliot—who was at Oxford on a fellowship from Harvard—had "sent in the best poem I have yet had or seen from an American ... He has actually trained himself and modernized himself on his own." Monroe did not like Prufrock's "very European world-weariness", according to Humphrey Carpenter, but she published it anyway, in June 1915.
ellauri160.html on line 192: Pound käänsi Li Bain runoja japanilaisten avulla. Ei niitä monta tullut, ennenkin se ehti riitaantua apujapanilaisten kaa. Michael Alexander saw Cathay as the most attractive of Pound's work. There is a debate about whether the poems should be viewed primarily as translations or as contributions to Imagism and the modernization of English poetry. English professor Steven Yao argued that Cathay shows that translation does not need a thorough knowledge of the source language.
ellauri160.html on line 193: Pound's translations from Old English, Latin, Italian, French and Chinese were highly disputed. According to Alexander, they made him more unpopular in some circles than the treason charge.
ellauri160.html on line 195: Robert Graves wrote in 1955: "Pound knew little Latin, yet he translated Propertius; and less Greek, but he translated Alcaeus; and still less Anglo-Saxon, yet he translated The Seafarer. I once asked Arthur Waley how much Chinese Pound knew; Waley shook his head despondently."
ellauri160.html on line 196: Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry, published a letter in April 1919 from a professor of Latin, W. G. Hale, who found "about three-score errors" in the text; he said Pound was "incredibly ignorant of Latin", that "much of what he makes his author say is unintelligible", and that "If Mr. Pound were a professor of Latin, there would be nothing left for him but suicide" (adding "I do not counsel this"). Pound replied to Monroe: "Cat-piss and porcupines!! The thing is no more a translation than my 'Altaforte' is a translation, or than Fitzgerald's Omar is a translation."
ellauri160.html on line 200: After the publication of Cathay, Pound mentioned that he was working on a long poem. He described it in September 1915 as a "cryselephantine poem of immeasurable length which will occupy me for the next four decades unless it becomes a bore".
ellauri160.html on line 202: In June, July and August 1917 Pound had the first three cantos published, as "Three Cantos", in Poetry. Twice the length of Paradise Lost and 50 times longer than The Waste Land, Pound's 800-page The Cantos ("Canto I" to "Canto CXVI", c. 1917–1962) became his life's work.
ellauri160.html on line 203: In letters to his father in 1924 and 1927, Pound said The Cantos was like the medley of voices you hear when you turn the radio dial.
ellauri160.html on line 206: By 1917 The poet F. S. Flint told The Egoist's editor that "we are all tired of Mr. Pound". British literary circles were "tired of his antics" and of him "puffing and swelling himself and his friends", Flint wrote. "His work has deteriorated from book to book; his manners have become more and more offensive; and we wish he would go back to America."
ellauri160.html on line 207: By 1919 Pound felt there was no reason to stay in England. He had "muffed his chances of becoming literary director of London—to which he undoubtedly aspired," Aldington wrote in 1941, "by his own enormous conceit, folly, and bad manners."
ellauri160.html on line 209: The Pounds settled in Paris around April 1921 and in December moved to an inexpensive ground-floor apartment at 70 bis Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. Pound became friendly with Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Tristan Tzara, and others of the Dada and Surrealist movements, as well as Basil Bunting. He was introduced to the American writer Gertrude Stein, who was living in Paris. She wrote years later that she liked him but did not find him amusing; he was "a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not".
ellauri160.html on line 211: Hemingway, then aged 22, moved to Paris with his wife, Hadley Richardson, and letters of introduction from Sherwood Anderson. In February 1922 the Hemingways visited the Pounds for tea. Although Pound was 14 years older, the men became friends; Hemingway assumed the status of pupil and asked Pound to edit his short stories. Pound introduced him to his contacts, including Lewis, Ford, John Peale Bishop, Malcolm Cowley, and Derek Patmore, while Hemingway tried to teach Pound to box. Hemingway was a drinker, Ezra not.
ellauri160.html on line 213: Eliot sent Pound the manuscript of The Waste Land in 1922. Pound edited it with comments like "make up yr. mind", and reduced it by about half. Possum's dedication in The Waste Land was "For Ezra Pound / il miglior fabbro" (the "better craftsman"), from Canto 26 of Dante's Purgatorio.
ellauri160.html on line 217: English poets such as Maurice Hewlett, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred Tennyson had made a particular kind of Victorian verse—stirring, pompous, propagandistic and popular. According to modernist scholar James Knapp, Pound rejected the idea of poetry as "versified moral essay"; he wanted to focus on the individual experience, the concrete rather than the abstract.
ellauri160.html on line 219: Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be "like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling it's cold."
ellauri160.html on line 221: Angered by the carnage of World War I, Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury". He was completely right. He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler. During World War II and the Holocaust in Italy, he made hundreds of paid radio broadcasts for the Italian government, including in German-occupied Italy, attacking the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain, international finance, munitions makers and mongers, and Jews, among others, as causes, abettors and prolongers of the world war, as a result of which he was arrested in 1945 by American forces in Italy on charges of treason. He spent months in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including three weeks in an outdoor steel cage. Deemed unfit to stand trial, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years. Nothing has changed: this sounds precisely like the U.S. decades long persecution of Assange.
ellauri160.html on line 223: While in custody in Italy, Pound began work on sections of The Cantos that were published as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949 by the Library of Congress, causing enormous controversy. After a campaign by his fellow writers, he was released from St. Elizabeths in 1958 and lived in Italy until his death in 1972. His economic and political views have ensured that his life and work remain controversial. He is popular with the alt-right but his opinions about usury forever condemn him in the circles of New York money liberals.
ellauri160.html on line 390: By Ezra Pound By Ezra Kani
ellauri160.html on line 494: Ettäkö tää ei ole käännös muka? Kissanpissaa ja piikkisikoja! Ainaskin yhtä hyvä kuin Suomen Ezra Poundin eli Pentti Saarikosken Homer-käännöxet.
ellauri160.html on line 627: Pääni putosi takaisin pielukselle ja makasin siinä äänettömänä ihmeissäni. Olin luvannut isälleni että käyttäytyisin juutalaisen tavoin Varsovassa. Matkalla tänne olin vielä kerrannut filosofiani, joka oli vastalause juutalaisuudelle. Juutalaisessa henkilöityi vastalause luonnon ja myös Luojan tekemiä vääryyksiä kohtaan. Luonto tahtoi kuolemaa, mutta juutalai nen valitsi elämän; luonto halusi hillittömyyttä, mutta juutalainen halusi pidättyvyyttä; luonto tahtoi sotaa, mutta juutalainen, varsinkin diasporassa elävä (erittäin kehittynyt juutalainen) etsi rauhaa. Kymmenen (oik. 613) käskyä olivat itsessään vastalause luonnon laeille. Juutalainen oli ottanut tehtäväkseen lannistaa luonnon ja valjastaa sen palvelemaan Kymmentä käskyä (oik. 613). Koska juutalainen toimi vastoin luontoa, se halveksi häntä ja kosti hänelle. Mutta voitto ol juutalaisen puolella. Juutalainen ei luopunut taistelusta, vaikka hänen olisi ollut käytävä sitä Jumalaa vastaan. Niinpä, juutalaiset on kuin lutikat, ei niitä tapa mikään, kuten sai Ezra Poundkin huomata.
ellauri162.html on line 148: L´évolution de son antisémitisme est toujours débattue. Bernanos rend hommage à Édouard Drumont, avec lequel il partage sa détestation de la bourgeoisie, mais aussi l´association des juifs à la finance, aux banques, au pouvoir de l’argent au détriment du peuple, un thème qui fait florès dans la France de cette époque et qui suscite des propos antisémites de l´écrivain. Bernanos, qui a fait la guerre de 1914-1918, fustige aussi un patriotisme perverti qui humilie l´ennemi allemand dans la défaite au lieu de le respecter, trahissant ainsi l´honneur de ceux qui ont combattu et hypothéquant l´avenir. Täähän kuulostaa suorastaan Ezra Poundilta. «Les juifs traînent nonchalamment sur les colonnes de chiffres et les cotes un regard de biche en amour » ou « ces bonshommes étranges qui parlent avec leurs mains comme des singes ». J’aimerais mieux être fouetté par le rabbin d’Alger que faire souffrir une femme ou un enfant juif ». Juutalaiset kiistelevat vieläkin oliko Ykä hyvis vaiko pahis.
ellauri172.html on line 196: Tää seikkailu meni sillee paremmin että juoppo Stuart koitti murhata Luisan joka pääsi karkuun sitä Roomaan ursuloiden ja vänrikkinsä hoteisiin. (Vrt. Ezra Pound.) Kunnes Yorkin paha kardinaali puuttui kyyhkyläisten onneen. Pulut pakenivat Colmariin ja sieltä Pariisiin jossa niitä jelppi Thomas Jefferson.
ellauri192.html on line 271: In poetry, the balance sheet is dismal. No Ezra Pound, no Rilke, no Valery, no Wallace Stevens, no Kazantzakis, no Cavafy, no Mandelstam, no Akhmatova, no Lorca, no Auden, no Fernando Pess^oa (a poet's poet). Stockholm, as we saw, enlarged the bounds of ''literature'' to include professional philosophy, ancient history and political rhetoric. The prose of Freud honors the German language. Freud was nominated; in vain, of course.
ellauri192.html on line 279: After this, explanation becomes speculative. Significant literature is inseparable from ideology and political feelings. There are more than hints that political considerations were implicit in the omission of Pound, Claudel, Malraux and Brecht. Too right, too right, too right, too left. The thoroughly embarrassing preference of Heinrich B"oll in 1972 over that far greater writer G"unter Grass was wholly typical of the Swedish Academy's bias towards the middle ground of urbane and liberal decencies. (Look! We tried to do the umlauts and almost did! But these are Germans, and Günther is an ex nazi too.) The great imaginings of terror and utopia, be they of the left or of the right, are not welcome. The 1957 choice of the young Camus haloed a literary persona and style of vision emblematic of the Stockholm ideal.
ellauri198.html on line 141: Harold Bloom observed in the New Leader, “Warren alone among living writers ranks with the foremost American poets of the century: Frost, Stevens, Hart Crane, Williams, Pound, Eliot. ...
ellauri262.html on line 425: In 1920 Sayers entered into a passionate though unconsummated romance with Jewish Russian émigré and Imagist poet John Cournos, who moved in London literary circles with Ezra Pound and his contemporaries. Sayers did not consummate her relationship with him unmarried, due to her religious beliefs. Cournos disdained monogamy and marriage, did not want children and was dedicated to free love.[53] He also considered crime writing, which Sayers had started, to be low brow, though he assisted her with aspects of publication.[54] Within two years their relationship had broken up when he insisted on consummation with birth control. Returning to New York, he soon married a crime writer who had two children. This left Sayers embittered that he had not held to his own principles, feeling that he had been testing her, pushing her to sacrifice her own beliefs in submission to his own. He later confessed that he would have happily married Sayers if she had submitted to his sexual demands. After a period of heated correspondence, they concluded with more amicable missives after she met her future husband.
ellauri270.html on line 593: Starting in 1890, Louis helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title, and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law." He later became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to antisemitism in Europe and Russia, while at the same time being a way to "revive the Jewish spirit."
ellauri272.html on line 414: Critics tracing his creative genealogy are apt to begin with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and work chronologically forward through Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Of those poets, Harold Bloom felt that the transcendentalists Emerson and Whitman have influenced Ammons the most. Xcept he overdoes the colon. Radical colectomy is indicated.
ellauri321.html on line 293: 1. Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
ellauri323.html on line 200: Vuonna 1916 Moore muutti äitinsä kanssa Chathamiin, New Jerseyn osavaltioon, josta pendelöi Manhattanille. 2v myöhemmin he muuttivat New Yorkin Greenwich Villageen, jossa Moore seukkasi monien avantgarde- taiteilijoiden kanssa, erityisesti niiden kanssa, jotka olivat yhteydessä Others- lehteen. Hänen tuolloin kirjoittamiaan innovatiivisia runoja kiittelivät suuresti setämiehet Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, TS Eliot ja myöhemmin Wallace "Cat" Stevens. Plus HD eli Hilda Doolittle, joka ei ollut setämies vaan täti.
ellauri323.html on line 341: Kukaan ei olisi voinut ennakoida Mooren yhdennentoista tunnin oleskelua julkkisten maailmassa septuagenaarina 50-luvulla äidin kuoltua. Henry Ford ei tosin huolinut Mooren päättömiä nimiehdotuxia vaan risti uuden automallin Edselixi. TS Eliot ylisti hänen runojaan jo varhain, ja sanoi, että ne kuuluivat tuon ajan "pieneen kestävän runouden joukkoon". Teos vaikutti "kohtalaisen älylliseltä", kuten Eliot ilmaisi johdannossaan Mooren vuoden 1935 "Selected Poems" -teokselle: "Vain niille, joiden äly liikkuu helpommin, he näyttävät välittömästi olevan emotionaalista arvoa." Kohtuullisen intellektuellilla oli sanansa: Mark Van Doren, Columbian professori, tuomitsi hänet pelkäksi nokkelaksi, "korkeakulmakarvaisten" runoilijaksi. Mutta Eliot ja muut – William Carlos Williams, HD, Stevens, Pound – epäilivät, että hän oli sukupolvensa parhaita runoilijoita, puhtaamman modernismin harjoittaja kuin he olivat uskaltaneet. Hänen ennen myöhäistä tähtikoiruuttaan tuottamien pienten teosten parhaat puolet – kaksi tusinaa runoa, ehkä - on monille edelleen vertaansa vailla amerikkalaisessa kirjallisuudessa. John Ashbery ei ole yksin kiusauksensa "kutsua häntä suurimmaksi nykyajan runoilijaksemme" kanssa.
ellauri323.html on line 343: Runot olivat kovia, ja vieläkin kovempia, koska ne eivät olleet "vaikeita" – pirstoutuneita, viittauksia – määrätyllä modernistisella tavalla. Pound sanoi, että ne olivat "epätoivoissa olevien älykkäiden ihmisten aivopieru" ("mielenhuuto", oli Ezran käyttämä sananvalinta). Vasta myöhemmin ymmärrämme, että se, mitä on kuvattu, ei ole sitä, mitä Moore näki, vaan mitä Moore tunsi nähdessään sen, mitä hän näki. Varmaan se näki kotonakin kaikenlaista kuten Juan keskuspuistossa, märkiä myskihärkiä.
ellauri386.html on line 407: (114)W H Auden, (165)Charles Bukowski, (193)E.e. cummings, (1076)Emily Dickinson, (54)T S Eliot, (145)Robert Frost, (91)Langston Hughes, (100)Philip Larkin, (52)Spike Milligan, (119)Pablo Neruda, (282)Sylvia Plath, (65)Edgar Allan Poe, (201)William Shakespeare, (243)Rabindranath Tagore, (183)Alfred Lord Tennyson, (100)Dylan Thomas, (368)William Wordsworth, (383)William Butler Yeats. Ja oletko lukenut näitä runoilijoita? Sir John Betjeman • Elizabeth Bishop • Richard Brautigan • George Gordon Byron • Lewis Carroll • Billy Collins • Nissim Ezekiel • Allen Ginsberg • Thomas Hardy • Jose Marti • Wilfred Owen • Ezra Pound • Nizar Qabbani • Jose Rizal • Christina Georgina Rossetti • Siegfried Sassoon • Robert W Service • Henry Van Dyke • William Carlos Williams • Judith Wright?
ellauri391.html on line 684: Hollantilaisten palkkaama Mr. Underhill hyökkäsi nukkuvaan lenaappikylään ja poltti sen (mahdollisesti myös Wappingerin konfederaation Siwanoy- ja Wechquaesgeek-yhtyeet) ja tappoi yxin tein 500-700 intiaania. Ihan Gaza touhua. Sanotaan, että juuri ennen kuolemaa lenaappi saattoi poistua ruumiista ja matkustaa vierailemaan paikoissa ja ihmisissä. Pound Ridgen verilöylyn jälkeen niitä lenteli kuin vaatekoita.
ellauri392.html on line 421: And Ezra Pound and A.C. Swinburne. All very good
ellauri392.html on line 822: How can one purport to deal with modernist literature, with nary a mention of any of the following: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, HD (Hilda Doolittle), Anais Nin, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, or Gertrude Stein? Exclusively anglo-saxon types, mainly Americans.
ellauri392.html on line 935: de Man liittyi kulttuurikerhoon, johon kuuluvat Caravaggio, Wagner, Céline, Pound, Heidegger ja joukko muita taitavia taiteilijoita, ajattelijoita ja intellektuelleja, jotka eivät myöskään olleet hyväkuntoisia.
ellauri409.html on line 361: Walt Whitmanin vaikutuksesta Laforgue oli yksi ensimmäisistä ranskalaisista runoilijoista, joka kirjoitti vapaassa säkeessä. Itse asiassa hänen käännöstensä Whitmanin runoista, jotka julkaisi Vogue-lehti, uskotaan vaikuttaneen Laforguen maanmieheen Gustave Kahniin. Filosofisesti hän oli pessimisti ja Schopenhauerin ja Von Hartmannin kiihkeä opetuslapsi . Hänen runoutensa olisi yksi suurimmista vaikutuksista Ezra Poundiin ja nuoreen TS Eliotiin. Louis Untermeyer kirjoitti: "Prufrockia, joka julkaistiin vuonna 1917, ylistettiin välittömästi uutena tapana englantilaisessa kirjallisuudessa ja samalla sitä vähäteltiin Laforguen ja ranskalaisten symbolistien kiekuna ja kaikuna, joille Eliot oli kiitoxen velkaa."
ellauri409.html on line 554: Eliot had only “a heap of broken images” until his work met Ezra Pound’s green crayon. The Ezitor made order from chaos, slashing away whole pages, fine-tuning lines, sculpting his friend’s fragments into a whole.
ellauri409.html on line 564: Ezra Poundille
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Ezra Pound 1885–1972
ellauri409.html on line 626: From Personae by Ezra Pound, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher. 😂😄😃😝😁
ellauri421.html on line 119: His understanding of Pound, Eliot, Apollinaire, and many other modern poets was vast. Paz, as John Butt wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, aspired to be all-encompassing. As Christ noted: Paz regarded himself as a brilliant stylist. Enrique Fernandez saw Octavio Paz as a writer of enormous influence. Silks slipping off bodies and fluttering in the breeze—delicate, suggestive, and profound.
xxx/ellauri057.html on line 864: Knut Hamsun ei ollut ainoa äärioikeistolaisiin ajatuksiin viehtynyt kulttuurihahmo. Fasismin lumoihin lankesivat muun muassa Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Gottfried Benn, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Luigi Pirandello ja Ezra Pound.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 1154: Remu was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou. A nobleman (under the tutelage of the Lorraine family), he did his studies under Marc Antoine Muret and George Buchanan. As a student, he became friends with the young poets Jean de La Péruse, Étienne Jodelle, Jean de La Taille and Pierre de Ronsard and the latter incorporated Remy into the "La Pléiade", a group of revolutionary young poets. Belleau´s first published poems were odes, les Petites Inventions (1556), inspired by the ancient lyric Greek collection attributed to Anacreon and featuring poems of praise for such things as butterflies, oysters, cherries, coral, shadows, turtles, and twats. His last work, les Amours et nouveaux Eschanges des Pierres precieuses (1576), is a poetic description of gems and their properties inspired by medieval and renaissance lapidary catalogues. He died impotent in Paris on 6 March 1577, and was buried in Grands Augustins. Remy Belleau was greatly admired by impotent poets in the twentieth century, such as Francis Ponge. Francis Ponge (1899 Montpellier, Ranska – 1988 Le Bar-sur-Loup, Ranska) oli ranskalainen runoilija. Ponge työskenteli kirjailijanuransa ohella toimittajana, kustannustoimittajana ja ranskan kielen opettajana. Hän osallistui toisen maailmansodan aikana vastarintaliikkeeseen ja kuului vuosina 1937–1947 kommunistipuolueeseen. Hän sai vaikutteita eksistentialismista, ja esinerunoissaan hän paljastaa kielen avulla objektin itsenäisenä, omanlakisena maailmana. Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France in 1899. He has been called “the poet of things” because simple objects like a plant, a shell, a cigarette, a pebble, or a piece of soap are the subjects of his prose poems. To transmute commonplace objects by a process of replacing inattention with contemplation was Ponge’s way of heeding Ezra Pound’s edict: ‘Make it new.’ Ponge spent the last 30 years of his life as a recluse at his country home, Mas des Vergers. He suffered from frequent bouts with nervous exhaustion and numerous psychosomatic illnesses. He continued to write up until his death on August 6, 1988.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 601: Margaret Caroline Anderson (November 24, 1886 – October 19, 1973) was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot in the United States, and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel, Ulysses. A large collection of her papers on Gurdjieff's teaching is now preserved at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. She was blond, shapely, with lean ankles and a Scandinavian face. ... In 1916, Anderson met Jane Heap. The two became lovers. In early 1924, through Alfred Richard Orage, Anderson came to know of spiritual teacher George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and saw performances of his 'Sacred dances', first at the 'Neighbourhood Playhouse', and later at Carnegie Hall. Shortly after Gurdjieff's automobile accident, Anderson, along with Georgette Leblanc, Jane Heap and Monique Surrere, moved to France to visit him at Fountainebleau-Avon, where he had set up his institute at Château du Prieuré in Avon.
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 889: Notable persons influenced by Mead include Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, Hermann Hesse, Kenneth Rexroth, and Robert Duncan. The seminal influence of G.R.S. Mead on Carl Gustav Jung, confirmed by the scholar of Gnosticism Gilles Quispel, a friend of Jung´s, has been documented by several scholars.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 992: Indeed, it could be a parlor game on the order of listing the famous alcoholics in American literature: Name the 20th-century authors who were anti-Semites — Theodore Dreiser; Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald (a little); Sinclair Lewis; Ezra Pound, of course; T. S. Eliot; William Faulkner; Thomas Wolfe — the list goes on.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 299: Have you read these poets? Christina Georgina Rossetti • Jose Marti • Robert W Service • Allen Ginsberg • Judith Wright • Siegfried Sassoon • Wilfred Owen • Elizabeth Bishop • Nissim Ezekiel • Billy Collins • Lewis Carroll • Nizar Qabbani • Sir John Betjeman • Richard Brautigan • Henry Van Dyke • George Gordon Byron • Jose Rizal • Thomas Hardy • William Carlos Williams • Ezra Pound
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 301: Vielä 4 uutta: Byron, Hardy, Williams, Pound.
xxx/ellauri208.html on line 432: Kärkkäisen magneettimedia peukuttaa distributismia, oik. korporatismia. Distributismia mukailevaa talouspolitiikkaa alettiin noudattamaan 30-luvulla niin fasistisessa Italiassa kuin kansallissosialistisessa Saksassakin. Lopputuloksena Saksassa koettiin ihmiskunnan merkittävin taloudellinen nousu ja hyvinvoinnin lisääntyminen uskomattoman lyhyessä ajassa. Tämän yksityispankkien kahleista irtautumisen seurauksena kansainvälinen juutalaisyhteisö julisti Saksalle sodan vuonna 1933, mikä lopulta johti myöhemmin toisen maailmansodan syttymiseen. Distributismin kohtalon koki myös englantilaisen insinöörin Clifford Hugh ”C. H.” Douglasin talousteoriat ja kansanluottomalli (Social Credit). Douglasin mallissa tyrmättiin yksityinen pankkitoiminta ja todettiin rahan olevan tuotantoa ohjaava informaation väline eikä pelkkä vaihdonväline. Sysmän Osuuspankki näkyy lopettelevan, tiesi Sysmän tyrnävä blondi kirjastonhoitaja kertoa. Social Credit –mallia muun muassa USA:ssa, Englannissa ja Italiassa kamppanjoineet Douglas ja hänen yhteistyökumppaninsa runoilija ja filosofi Ezra Pound leimattiin sodan jälkeen antisemitisteiksi ja jopa mielenvikaisiksi.
xxx/ellauri208.html on line 586: "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" is a song with words by Jessie Brown Pounds and music by John Sylvester Fearis, written in 1897. The song gained huge popularity when it was used in William McKinley's funeral. It was subsequently a staple at funerals for decades, and there are dozens of recorded versions.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 427: Crane was admired by artists including Allen Tate, Eugene O´Neill, Kenneth Burke, Edmund Wilson, E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams. Although Hart had his sharp critics, among them Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound, Moore did publish his work, as did T. S. Eliot, who, moving even further out of Pound´s sphere, may have borrowed some of Crane´s imagery for Four Quartets, in the beginning of East Coker, which is reminiscent of the final section of "The River", from The Bridge.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 447: Ezra Pound includes the poem in Confucius to Cummings, edited with Marcella Spann (1964).
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 88: 1914 Awarded a scholarship to Merton College Oxford; met Ezra Pound in London.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 144: The Bolovian verses carry much critical baggage. To Conrad Aiken, they are “hilariously naughty parerga” or “admirable stanzas” (March 22). Ezra Pound calls them “chançons ithyphallique” (IMH xvi). Bonamy Dobrèe claims, “They are part of an elaborated joke, nurtured through years. It is about some primitive people called the Bolovians, who wore bowler hats, and had square wheels to their chariots” (Tate 73). Subsequent descriptions are equally diverse, ranging from “pornographic doggerel” (Thorpe) to “scabrous exuberances” (Ricks xvi). One critic says they have “a surprising racial, even racist, focus” (Cooper 66). Another claims “these poems comically and obscenely portray the history of early European expansion as an orgy of uncontrollable desire and deviant sexuality” (McIntire 283). Pornoa mikä pornoa. Eliot borrows generously from common bawdy songs and joins a long list of classical writers who indulge in sexual, obscene, erotic, bawdy, scatological, and otherwise blue verse.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 207: C.S. Lewis betrayed his conservatism in his now infamous refusal to publish any “Words Ending in -Uck, -Unt, and -Ugger” (Pound 8). It is ironic that, except for “bugger”, “fuck” and “cunt,” other words ending in those syllables do not occur in Eliot's poems.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 212: Pound was teasing Eliot, because Bishop balked at publishing the “Waste Land” for the high brow Vanity Fair. Eliot replies the next day reporting:
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 218: The sound of the Rear Admirals’s cabin boy gives him an erection, i.e. a manly bone. “Manly bone” rimes with the tube station Marylebone, the route that ends in Golders Green, where BBQ once frolicked, hence perhaps another reference to penises (trains) entering vaginas (train stations or tunnels). What Eliot called “the rape of the bishop” in a letter to Pound, refers to John Peale Bishop’s failure to print “The Waste Land” in Vanity Fair.
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Eliot määritteli uusklassisismin oleellisilta osiltaan uskoxi perisyntiin - ankaran kurin tarpeellisuuteen. Hän puhui Ranskan kirjallisuudesta uskomattoman kuivasti ja innottomasti, huulet tuskin liikkuivat. Peräsynnissä se sai apua T.E. Hulmelta. Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883 Endon, Staffordshire, Britannia – 1917 Oostduinkerke, Belgia) oli brittiläinen filosofi ja kriitikko. Hän oli imagistisen liikkeen perustajia. Hulme esitteli Englannissa Henri Bergsonin filosofiaa ja tuki Ezra Poundia kirjoittamalla ennen ensimmäistä maailmansotaa artikkeleita imagismista. Kaikexi onnexi Hulme kuoli ensimmäisen maailmansodan taistelussa Oostduinkerkessa.
Vaasalainen kansakoulunopettaja Hannu Pertti Nieminen suomensi kokoelman Hulmen runoja. "Näin punertavan kuun nojaavan pensasaitaan kuin punanaamainen farmari." Hulmen runouden tutkiminen usein vieraantumisen, eristyneisyyden ja merkityksen etsimisen teemoja pirstaloitussa maailmassa. Hän uskoi, että runouden tulisi olla "kuivaa ja kovaa", painottamalla sanan selkeyttä ja suoraa kalua. Eliot oli kuiva mutta jäi uupumaan jälkimmäisessä suhteessa.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 272: Hulmen painotus kuvan tärkeydestä vaikutti rankasti muihin runoelimiin, kuten Ezra Poundin paxuun mutta lyhköseen ja T.S Eliotin puoliveteiseen. Hulme sai apua Bergsonilta imagismiin ja Gustave Kahnilta loppusoinnuttomaan runoiluun.
Loppusoinnuttomuus oli aikamoinen vallankumous. Ancient Greek and Roman poetry did not rhyme, and early European poetry did not rhyme either. In the West, rhyme began to emerge during the medieval period. In other countries, such as China, rhyming occurred much earlier. In fact, the earliest surviving evidence of rhyming dates back to China in the tenth century BC. Rhyme, as a tradition, probably came into English through the French influence following the Norman invasion of England. It may be that the Latin based languages of Europe took the idea of rhyme from the Arabic during the period that the Moors ruled in much of the Iberian Peninsula.
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