On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:13 PM, "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
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> > A silly (and quite destructive) dismissal, precluding a just appraisal
> of one of the most important 20th century poets in English
> >
> >> Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound: "A village
> >> explainer, which is nice if you're a village, and if not, not."
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> I like a lot of Pound's stuff myself, though I don't
> do appraisals and don't care about importance.
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> But old Gertrude was dead right about Pound's weak
> spot: the autodidact's preening vanity and fatal
> underestimation of his listeners.
>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
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