.@HeerJeet yeah, I was about to quote Pound's "for an old bitch gone in the teeth, for a botched civilization"
@DougHenwood @KathaPollitt Marianne Moore was also a regular Republican. E.E. Cummins a bit of Tea party type. Among our best poets!
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt so why were these high modernist poets so reactionary? -
@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt Tough question. Hazlitt already regretted in early 19th century that poetry was an inherently aristocratic form?
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt compared with 19th century - had poetry become a reactionary form? -
@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt But of course there was counter tradition of democratic poetry from Whitman to W.C. Williams. - Show replies
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