: Justin Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 7:55 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:12683] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: FYI [Fwd: Poetics of History Part
VI]
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> Well, Brit writers wouldn't be of _my_ society; Pound, Eliot, and Yeats
are
> as foreign
Fair enough, at least about Pound. Eliot became so thoroughly Anglicized (as
I was not) that he was only from here, AMerican in the sense that, say,
Conrad was Polish. Incidentally, I asked a very educated Polish doctor
whether Conrad was known in Poland. She said, Who? I still can't make
anyt
G'day Gene,
> Yeats wasn't a Brit.
Too right - can't imagine too many Brits of Yeats's poshness seeing the Easter
Uprising as a terrible beauty born.
Cheers,
Rob.
Yeats wasn't a Brit.
gene coyle
Rob Schaap wrote:
> G'day Justin,
>
> > Well, Brit writers wouldn't be of _my_ society; Pound, Eliot, and
> > Yeats are
> > as foreign as Akhmatova and Brecht to an American.
>
> *Whoop. Whoop. Gross and possibly offensive generalisation alert!*
>
> As I unders
G'day Justin,
> Well, Brit writers wouldn't be of _my_ society; Pound, Eliot, and
> Yeats are
> as foreign as Akhmatova and Brecht to an American.
*Whoop. Whoop. Gross and possibly offensive generalisation alert!*
As I understand it, Pound was born in Idaho and educated in Philadelphia. He
Well, Brit writers wouldn't be of _my_ society; Pound, Eliot, and Yeats are
as foreign as Akhmatova and Brecht to an American. Matter of fact, I do love
my fellow American poets: Whitman, Dickenson, Thomas McGrath, Robinson
Jeffers, the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Adrienne Rich, Denis Lev
