6. In 1950s, Pound played a key role in reformulating an older "Jeffersonian" states rights tradition in an anti-liberal direction, which some of his followers took further as a licence for racist and anti-government violence.
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17. Kenner: “With Hitler, Mussolini and General O’Duffy at last out of the way, with the magnetic fields their names commanded now for all time collapsed, one can see what were the real subjects of concern [for writers like Pound]" But is fascism really "out of the way"?
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18. Kenner was a brilliant critic & Pound's best advocate, but I think the new scholarship (by Alec Marsh & others) casts doubt on a central claim. Pound's fascism was not just a matter of defeated European movement but also a still living American one.
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19. In Italy today, there is a neofascist group called CasaPound. The members call themselves ragazzi di Ezra: Ezra’s boys (not related to Vox). None of this is dead & over.
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20. If I were truly on the ball, I could've worked in Robert Anton Wilson (Pounder lover, Kenner correspondent & author of the Illumantus books).
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21. If I were also on the case, I would have brought in James Jesus Angleton (Pound admirer, CIA counter-intelligence expert, the man who dropped the ball on Oswald, torturer of many Soviet defectors). https://twitter.com/TCleveland4Real/status/1110368215979474946 …
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22. Anyways, if you want to read more about the cultural politics of the Pound era, here's an essay I did on Hugh Kenner & Guy Davenport. It's one of the best things I've written:https://newrepublic.com/article/153244/hugh-kenner-guy-davenport-letters-unlikely-literary-friendship …
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No, Kenner broke with formalism & was interested in social vision as part of poetics.
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Lots of people thought that. Today in TLS Alfred Hayes an editor of New Masses & writer for Daily Worker urged poets to study T.S. Eliot for "his ability to make life vivid and concrete, his dramatic power, his diction stripped to the concentration of prose."
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"if you bracket off the politics from the politics, the fascist becomes approachable, even endearing"
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