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Moderator
...begins now. And I am learning from the masters, of course. On the banks of the 20th century. Beginning with the Pound Era.
I am going approximately in order from the beginning of Modernism, although I may backtrack from my starting point into Symbolism. The idea is to get a sense of the trajectory—of poetry as a temporal unfolding and not a static thing-in-space.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to learn along with me, or to teach me what they know.
[Cathay's] real achievement lay not on the frontier of comparative poetics, but securely within the effort, then going forward in London, to rethink the nature of an English poem. It consisted in maximizing three criteria at once, criteria hitherto developed separately: the vers-libre principle, that the single line is the unit of composition; the Imagist principle, that a poem may build its effects out of things it sets before the mind's eye by naming them; and the lyrical principle, that words or names, being ordered in time, are bound together and recalled into each other's presence by recurrent sounds.
I am going approximately in order from the beginning of Modernism, although I may backtrack from my starting point into Symbolism. The idea is to get a sense of the trajectory—of poetry as a temporal unfolding and not a static thing-in-space.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to learn along with me, or to teach me what they know.