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WEEDS IN THE GARDEN OF WORDS If the English language is a glorious garden, filled with exotic hybrids and the continuing tradition of heritage specimens, then it is no surprise that we will also find some weeds. Linguistic weeds may have pronunciations we don’t want or constructions that are out of place. We may be trying to hold on to words and usage we should perhaps have said farewell to. B...

THE ART OF POETRY NO. 30 PHILIP LARKIN “Temperamentally and geographically remote,” The Times Literary Supplement wrote of Philip Larkin, “he has refused almost all invitations to judge, recite, review, lecture, pontificate, or to be interviewed.” When the notion of securing a Paris Review interview with Larkin arose, the staff was not sanguine. Much to the staff’s delight, Larkin consented w...

Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism indignation. But instead of trying to provide an answer to this simple requests, the response is cries of anger: to raise these questions shows "elitism," "anti-intellectualism," and other crimes --- though apparently it is not "elitist" to stay within the self- and mutual-admiration societies of intellectuals who talk only to one a...

Lesson 4: Ezra Pound and the English Avant-Garde Poetics  In the 1920’s and 1930’s: there was a significant change in the conception of literary theory and criticism. Thanks to figures such as T.S. Eliot, I. A. Richards and his disciples F. R. Leavis and William Empson, the last remnants of the Victorian vision of literature were swept away.  However, this innovation flowering in the 1920s an...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) • Prominent Irish literary figure • Aesthete origins • Member of Rhymers Club • Fascinated with myth • Wants to re-make myths and symbols Image borrowed from: http://encarta.msn.com/find/MediaMax.asp ?pg=3&ti=029FB000&idx=461535406 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) • Begins to see his poetry linked to Irish culture • Becomes fascinated with Irish lore • Strong ...

"PL CATHAY EZRA POUND CATHAY CATHAY TRANSLATIONS BY EZRA/JPOUND FOR THE MOST PART FROM THE CHINESE OF RIHAKU, FROM THE NOTES OF THE LATE ERNEST FENOLLOSA, AND THE DECIPHERINGS OF THE PROFESSORS MORI AND ARIGA LONDON ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET MCMXV RlHAKU flourished in the eighth century of our era. The Anglo-Saxon Seafarer is of about this period. The other poems fro...

HOW TO READ1 (1929) Ezra Pound Part I: Introduction Largely Autobiographical, Touching the Present, and More or Less Immediately Past, “State of Affairs.” Literary instruction in our “institutions of learning”2 was, at the beginning of this century, cumbrous and inefficient. I dare say it still is. Certain more or less mildly exceptional professors were affected by the “beauties” of various aut...

Modernism moves to New York       Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism Faulkner “discovered” (1946, Nobel Prize, 1948) American film (trade agreement with post-war France) Nabokov in town (since 1940) Jazz and Popular Culture W.H. Auden reverses earlier expatriate pattern of Pound, Eliot, and Company – becomes an American citizen Other Postwar Poets Reflect Trend    Silvia ...

Poetry as a mediator of differences in national film *** Bent Sørensen poetry in two recent, popular American and British films. Poetry can be demonstrated to function as a device which both highlights difference (a major component in identity construction is to show how we are all different individuals), and universality of emotion (a major component of identity construction is to show how w...