08-31-2023, 07:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2023, 08:03 PM by TranquillityBase.)
(08-31-2023, 12:42 PM)rowens Wrote: Wallace Stevens will last. Pound won't.If I were younger, I would lay a bet with you about this. All I can say is Pound will last for me.
(08-31-2023, 04:33 PM)RiverNotch Wrote: I've yet to read much of either, but as someone who's no member of some master race, I'd have to default to the one who isn't an unapologetic fascist.Understood. I guess I'd just say he was an honest fascist.
Pound was on the barricades all his life. Stevens spent his life at Hartford Insurance.
Going after either man for anything but the quality of his poetry is irrelevant to me.