Pound vs. Eliot

[abu nuwas]

Reading this thread, I come away with two truths that I not only retain from before reading, but which have been reinforced tenfold.

1. I dislike the poetry of Pound and most of Eliot's (with the exception of The Hollow Men), not because of who wrote it, but because it irritates me.

2. I remain unapologetically post-structuralist and if that makes me archaic, so be it. I care little for the author and consider everything I read to be mine (although some things I do wish the writer hadn't given to me and would cheerfully return them).

At last! Matron has spoken!