Did poetry peak with Ezra Pound?
>>25351581quite the opposite
>>25351612>The term vers-libres, never a happy one, is happily dying out. We can now see that there was no movement, no revolution, and there is no formula. The only revolution was that Ezra Pound was born with a fine ear for verse. He has enabled a few other persons, including myself, to improve their verse sense; so that he has improved poetry through other men as well as by himself. I cannot think of any one writing verse, of our generation and the next, whose verse (if any good) has not been improved by the study of Pound’s. His poetry is an inexhaustible reference book of verse form. There is, in fact, no one else to study.
Henry Fielding once said ‘men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand.’ I think it would pay to remember that.
>>25351581slop
>>25351581>free verseInto the trash it goes. Also, fuck him for being a godless heathen.
poetry peaked with homer
For poetry's peakThe art form's high mountain topRead simple haiku.
Careful anon, by mentioning Pound you will summon the angry jeet who insists Pound is the worst poet in history. His autism knows no bounds. Anyway there's going to be a lot of seething in this thread from retards that could never admit Pound is a great poet, no no NO he CAN'T be because he was anti-semetic!
>>25351939denounce vishnu
>>25351873People are also inclined to criticise anything they don't understand, the more typical reaction to artistic innovation in the preceding centuries, and there's never been a shortage of those acerbic, sardonic critics of unchallenging intellectual dimensions, such as Robert Graves, to reassure and pamper the public in all its philistinism and vanity.It would 'pay to remember' that not only are you too ignorant to criticise Pound yourself, and not only is the Graves quote lacking in substance enough to supply that knowledge necessary to form a critique, but that Robert Graves' opinion stands against the vast majority of writers and artists in the 20th century. A fact which should, if you are not hopelessly hubristic, at least remedy the sheer extremity of denunciation if not remove it altogether. To persist otherwise, irremediably in your opinion, can only be due to ignorance and/or the aforesaid hubris.
>>25351981based
>>25351981I had mistakenly thought it was possible to dislike a poem for reasons having to do with the poem. You made a lot of assertions about ignorance, hubris, vanity, but very little about the lines under discussion. Of course if you have no proper judgment, no ability to see a thing as it really is, you spend your time groping for guidelines like what people have said or might say about it, what class it seems to fall into, where it seems to be aiming, whether it strikes you as normal or not, above all whether it can be called important or not - which is far easier to decide than whether the thing is any good or not.
>>25352018dude you literally have said no opinions of your own, you only have ever cited other authors and displayed their opinions. Do you unironically have this little self-awareness?
>>25352094By your leave, I'll cite someone else, Montaigne said 'I quote others in order the better to express myself.'Graves’ criticism stands or falls on its merits, regardless of who wrote it. ‘Most writers admired Pound’ isn’t a criticism, a defence, or even an argument.
>>25351981>>25352018>>25352127denounce vishnu
his poetry is tiktok tier shit
>>25351873What is blud yapping about
>>25351581talking about the Augoeides. just like Yeats, he was a wizard. game recognize game.
>>25351581I like David Jones better, although I dont pretend to understand either of their work all that much. I just like reading it.
>>25351581No, it peaked with the Earl of Rochester.
>>25351873that's the problem of paying heed to a midwit's interpretation on the work of a genius. it'd be like walking around and stopping to smell a pile of dog shit.
>>25353492>it'd be like walking around and stopping to smell a pile of dog shit.Exactly how sincere readers feel when they're momentarily persuaded to check out Pound's criticslop
He's my favorite poet, I have his complete works, minus the Cantos. Additionally he was a literary advisor to several of /lit/'s favorite writers/poets yet he's never talked about here. I am taking an English literature class and my professor's professor used to visit him in the hospital.
>>25354650I'd say he's the best poet of the 20th century, certainly the best American poet, and the fact he caused so much seethe is even better
