pound,elliot,hd's longer poems are all european high modernists, as are joyce,beckett and others
there are 5 imagists-early pound and hd among them ( as well as one or two of the voracsists (sp) and perhaps depending on whose definfing wcw), the introduction to the penguin anthology imagist poets is one of the better essays on them
passos seems to be calicfied in nortons, and has been since the late 50s.that said i love him to peices. (he reminds me of a contempary whitman- and proves that yvor winters was wrong when she said that no one could sustain a whitmanic(pun inherent) voice thruout his/her career. which leads me to another thread.
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 October 2002 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)