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.../cgi-bin/phrsr.pl. GOD S EYE AND THE POET S: APOTHEOSIS FROM THE RETURN TO CANTO CXIII In the spring of 1908, the son of Homer (Pound, that is!) turned a deaf ear to his mother s suggestion that he write an epic on the American West. Setting aside the teachings of his family s Presbyterianism...

... another prom pt, though, I've used repeatedly, in part because the w riting that results gives me such great pleasure and in part because it provokes lively responses from stu­ dents. I ask every student to bring a poem that they consider finished to the workshop. We then discuss Ezra Pound's statement...

... is present in section II in the figure of the fam iliar com pound ghost, and, further, that Eliot s n arrato r represents Arjuna. T he figure that Eliot calls a compound ghost, indicating that it clearly represents more than one person, has been the sub­ ject of much critical discussion. Among...

... pounds! Cut to: me in the very heart of Greenwich Village standing in a snaking line of six-foot-distanced patients waiting to have our temperatures taken to enter Mt. Sinai Hospital. And those ten pounds. What can I say about those ten pounds? Since puberty, I’d always been a bit much. I’m fairly...

... artifi­ cer in metal, tinker, blackguard : This fellow had been origi­ nally a tinkler, o r caird, many of whom stroll about these dis­ tricts. 7 Caird, I suggest, holds the key to the origin of tinker. D ecem ber 2001 11 The loan of com pound words or phrases from Celdc to G ermanic is often accom...

... of material improvement: lohn Couentrie and lohn Carpentar Executors to Richard Whitington, gaue towards the pauing of this great Hall twentie pound, and the next yeare fifteene pound more, to the saide pauem ent. 10 To Stow, the medieval Guildhall, situated on Catte Streete, forms a site reported in terms...

... on the part of black spokespersons to aspire toward such standards. Hence, one would have to present recognizably standard forms, and get what black mileage one could out of subtle, or, by contrast, straining (like McKay’s rebellious cries) variations and deepening of these forms. 56 Pound may have...

..., A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, Great Expectations, Hard Times, The Haunted Man, and A Tale of Two Cities. See httpwww.concordance.com/cgi-bin/phrsr.pl. GOD S EYE AND THE POET S: APOTHEOSIS FROM THE RETURN TO CANTO CXIII In the spring of 1908, the son of Homer (Pound, that is!) turned a deaf...

... the bawdy (with which, it is true, a m odem, non-specialized audience would have had difficulty), but terminating the scene midway, before the two climactic speeches that link it to both the casket and the pound-of-flesh themes, thus depriving it of its two-edged hum or and its purpose. It is our hope...

... the flesh. Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less or more But just a pound of flesh. If thou tak'st more Or less than a just pound, be it so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn But in the estim ation o f a hair...

... for sealskins and sealskin thongs and was caught “stealing shrimps out of the general mess-pot.” 27 After the order to execute Henry had been carried out, Greely noted that “fully twelve pounds of seal-skin were found cached among his effects.” 28 Sealskin is minimally edible for a human in extremity...

... donation to a hospital. This too was a fake, and, like the Dickens letter, Long argues, it used a celebrity name to “discomfort a target perceived to be unjustly privileged.” 2 Whereas Long’s essay shows how a forger might use celebrity glamour to generate plausibility, along with pounds, shillings...

... p lic it param eters o f language poetry, th e y also s u g g est a desire to re visit th e g ro u n d o f th e m o d e rn is t long poem . Ezra Pound fa m o u s ly d e fined th e epic as "a poem in clu d in g h is to ry " 15 and th a t d e fin itio n c e rta in ly fits such high m odernist w orks...

..., anguished intelligence. Ezra Pound, on the other hand, saw Eliot as the impersonal physician whose ministrations could purge English poetry s chronically sen­ timental banality. Eliot s work was a great force for division, especially among authors whom time and forgetfulness has forced into artificial unity...

... / If I forgive him ) by fi­ nally offering to take money instead of the pound of flesh that his bond mandates. Othello breaks faith with Desdem ona but still expects to garner respect after killing h e r because he has kept his sacred vow to avenge h e r supposed w rongdoing. To some extent...

... establishes how for Conrad Aiken, who knew him as an under­ graduate, Eliot s was a tortured, anguished intelligence. Ezra Pound, on the other hand, saw Eliot as the impersonal physician whose ministrations could purge English poetry s chronically sen­ timental banality. Eliot s work was a great force...

... the very sounds of language reflect the continuity between things and their actions: this effect is p roduced by the use of alliterations. The initial letters of the two parts of com pounded nouns (things) becom e the initial sounds o f the actions they perform : k and f in kingfishers are the first...

... earliest reception proved am bivalent, especially that o f the self-identified modern poets, Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. These poets found little in Hopkins that reminded them of themselves, little w ith which to identify. In 1935, after the second edition o f Hopkins's poems had been printed and Hopkins's...

... n in la w (thin k o f briefs, fo r instance) and not exactly 16 0 E n g lis h La n g u a g e N o tes 50.1 S pring / S u m m e r 2 0 1 2 u n c o m m o n in e ith e r lite ra tu re (thin k o f I S . Eliot and Ezra Pound both w ritin g The Waste Land) or literary criticism (think o f The M adw om...

... to identify with an ideal Other, Batten notes th at Shelley s desire for love in the ideal is com pounded with a kind of sublime terror, for the p u r­ suit of the ideal ineluctably leads to subjects an d objects that reconstruct each o th er in relationship to w ant th at is, in relationship to desire...