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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      11. What Pound's conservative admirers (led preeminently by the great literary critic Hugh Kenner, a National Review editor in 1960s) appreciated in Pound was his creation of a usable non-liberal past: Kung, Jefferson, Adams, etc.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      12. Pound's alliance Kaspers was a crude, vicious version of a trend that had more rarefied intellectual counterparts in exultation of Southern culture found in National Review, Modern Age etc. (Weaver, Southern Agarians, even The New Criticism).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      13. You go hunting where the ducks are. If you're anti-liberal in the 1940s/1950s, the ducks are white Southerners. Hence the Southern Strategy, with its intellectual counterpart in various southern intellectual movements (both conservative & far right)

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      14. Kenner, along with his then mentor Marshall McLuhan, met Pound at St. Elizabeths in 1948. Academically, Kenner & McLuhan were allied with the New Critics, who used formalism in the service of conservative & often pro-traditional South politics

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      15. Unlike the New Critics, though, Kenner didn't think a poet's social vision was irrelevant. However, he did believe that it could be separated from the particular politics the poet had. In other words, Pound's condemnation of usury doesn't have to be fascist.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      16. In an important 1967 essay, later reprinted & praised by William F. Buckley, Kenner argues that the politics of Pound & the other fascist modernists could be bracketed off from their politics.pic.twitter.com/JouHntdjSI

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jesse Walker

      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). @notjessewalker explains the relevance here:https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/1110370229308321792 …

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      Jesse Walker @notjessewalker
      Replying to @jeromenicolas76 @HeerJeet
      He's the link between Poundian economics and left-libertarianism (and then back, via the influence of his conspiracy books on people who took them at face value, to some militia types). Also an odd sort of counterpoint to Kasper, since Wilson sat in against segregation.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

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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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Mar 2019

          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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