A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry

[RiverNotch]

tbf I think it's rather ymmv. I'm comfortable listening to/reading the libretti of Wagner still, but I see Eliot (whom I've read a lot more than Pound) as a nasty, nasty ghost to be exorcised. Then again, there's a big difference with the way only nutters nowadays don't have some reservations with Wagner and his antisemitism, and with the way Pound's politics continue to be casually dismissed, or even suppressed, especially considering that much of the suppression of knowledge of his politics during his lifetime was essentially the same movement as resistance to, say, desegregation. Reading the essay you linked, with the perspectives around and of Pound and Stevens being described: where Stevens eschews politics entirely, Pound effectively claims it to be central -- and what exactly was Pound's politics, if not to see as inferior myself (a Filipino), or to demonize the likes of Harold Bloom (a Jew)? The question in the essay is framed as that between Pound's Modernism and Stevens's evolved Romanticism, to which I'd ask: why assign the age to the auspices of either of those writers, anyway? is the 20th century to be the age of Mussolini or Roosevelt?

Also not sure how honest Pound was when he essentially faked insanity to avoid treason trials xD

https://www.thenation.com/article/archiv...ics/tnamp/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23105029