10-25-2013, 09:05 PM
Billy,
Since we have here and there established that poetry can be anything, I can say that Pounds sucking up to Mussolini, praise of Hitler, and broadcasts against the Allies and for the Axis, to me, constitute rubbish poetry.
As to pretended knowledge of languages, feeding through to his ''poetry'', no, I don't care for that either, as of now. But who knows? I may come to love him and Lord Haw-Haw -- as poets, of course.
There were a great many people who decided -for personal reasons, of course --to fuck off to America in 1939, including Auden. In those cases, I may like their poetry despite their character; likewise with PG Wodehouse.
Since we have here and there established that poetry can be anything, I can say that Pounds sucking up to Mussolini, praise of Hitler, and broadcasts against the Allies and for the Axis, to me, constitute rubbish poetry.
As to pretended knowledge of languages, feeding through to his ''poetry'', no, I don't care for that either, as of now. But who knows? I may come to love him and Lord Haw-Haw -- as poets, of course.
There were a great many people who decided -for personal reasons, of course --to fuck off to America in 1939, including Auden. In those cases, I may like their poetry despite their character; likewise with PG Wodehouse.