Culture & Religion — April 21, 2010

Poetic Messiah

“No poet has ever been so influential, so controversial, and so little read” as Ezra Pound, writes Jamie James. After him, “anyone aspiring to be a poetic messiah would be shunned as a charlatan.”

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“No poet has ever been so influential, so controversial, and so little read” as Ezra Pound, writes Jamie James. “Pound predicted this gathering gloom, a new Dark Age brought on by the rise of commercial mass production.” After him, “anyone aspiring to be a poetic messiah would be shunned as a charlatan. … Poets now polish their CV’s and grant applications as well as their verse.”

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