Who do you think of as the most "critical" contemporary critics of poetry? People least afraid to be negative or to get very concrete in their analyses of what might be wrong with a specific poem? (Looking for good-faith critics here, not trolls)
Which side of the line would you put Wyndham Lewis or Ezra Pound?
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Don't know Lewis' work well enough. Early-to-mid-career Pound is certainly a good-faith tough critic; it's hard to make sober distinctions after his turn to fascism, but I guess even then I'd call him more propagandist than troll
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Lewis was a kind of troll of genius. I mean the objections he made against Joyce, Stein, Hemingway, Woolf etc were sharp, observant, memorable and funny but also maliciously motivated and partial and profoundly unfair.
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