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A serious science – Ezra Pound on the arts
“The arts, literature, poesy, are a science, just as chemistry is a science. Their subject is man, mankind and the individual.” From ‘The Serious Artist’ by Ezra Pound.
A prize-worthy force – Extract from How to Read
It appears to me quite tenable that the function of literature as a generated prize-worthy force is precisely that it does incite humanity to continue living; that it eases the mind of strain, and feeds it, I mean definitely as nutrition of impulse. This idea may worry lovers of order. Just as good literature does [...]
Materials of art
Words are perhaps the hardest of all material of art: for they must be used to express both visual beauty and beauty of sound, as well as communicating a grammatical statement. From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T.S. Eliot.
Public Library 12.02
The Chess Master and the Computer. Garry Kasparov on the history of the chess player’s nemesis, the chess computer. Via New York Review of Books. Pound’s Collected Poetry Recordings. PennSound’s complete collection of Ezra Pound recordings. Includes a good interview with Richard Sieburth, the page’s editor. A nation of racist dwarfs. “Kim Jong-il’s regime is [...]
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A note on Ezra Pound & Japan
For reasons that will become clearer (to myself) at a later date, I am reading Ezra Pound & Japan, a collection edited by Sanehide Kodama. Ezra Pound & Japan collects over fifty years of correspondence between Pound and various Japanese poets and editors. The latter parts of the book also contains Ezra’s actual contributions to [...]
The writer’s voice