@HeerJeet oh yeah - the father of a college friend of mine used to complain about him getting easy treatment - they should have hanged him!
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@DougHenwood It's not widely appreciated but in Washington Asylum Pound tried to hook up with US extreme right: Klan type people.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@HeerJeet Stevens was not a rightwing crackpot. he was just a Republican. Pound was a fascist and anti=semite, & proud of it2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@KathaPollitt@DougHenwood Didn't Stevens approve of Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia? Also made really racist comments about black poet?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@DougHenwood dunno abt Stevens on Ethiopia & race but no comparison with EP, who was a fascist activist & obsessive anti-semite.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KathaPollitt@DougHenwood No question, Pound was in a league of his own in terms of sheer evil.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt yeah, so we've got Stevens, regular Rep; Eliot, monarchist snob; and Pound, raving fascist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt Marianne Moore was also a regular Republican. E.E. Cummins a bit of Tea party type. Among our best poets!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt so why were these high modernist poets so reactionary?4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@DougHenwood @KathaPollitt Irving Howe's essay "Beliefs of the Masters" in his Selected Writings offers some thoughts on this.
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