@HeerJeet @DougHenwood dunno abt Stevens on Ethiopia & race but no comparison with EP, who was a fascist activist & obsessive anti-semite.
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Replying to @KathaPollitt
@KathaPollitt@DougHenwood No question, Pound was in a league of his own in terms of sheer evil.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt yeah, so we've got Stevens, regular Rep; Eliot, monarchist snob; and Pound, raving fascist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@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 compared with 19th century - had poetry become a reactionary form?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@DougHenwood@KathaPollitt But of course there was counter tradition of democratic poetry from Whitman to W.C. Williams.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@KathaPollitt Ginsberg. Rich. But I am so out of touch with poetry these days. Lamenting that lately.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@HeerJeet but don't forget Lowell, huge anti-war figure. Plath was peacenik too.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KathaPollitt@HeerJeet Yes, Lowell. But he wasn't one of the Big Swinging Dicks of High Modernism. A Medium Dick.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@HeerJeet IMO those modernists resented declining status of high culture, esp poetry. They have a point!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@KathaPollitt @DougHenwood Yep modernists were right in their critique of mass culture; alas they often linked critique to hateful politics
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