EN 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fire Sermon, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes
23 Mar 2018
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Make it new : ezra pound, the prophet of the modern. post at wabash college, in, for care of damsel in distress . 1905, hamilton college; 1905 university of penn; 1907, dismissed from teaching. 1941-45, ww2 propaganda broadcasts for fascist italian regime of mussolini. 1945-49, charged with treason and committed to st. elizabeths hospital. I make a pact with you, walt whitman-i have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child who has had a pig-headed father; i am old enough now to make friends. It is you who broke the new wood, now is a time for carving. We have one sap and one root- let there be commerce between us. Whistler in his studio - a portrait of two women, but also a self portrait. A play on an old poetic form. Pound, in a station of the metro (1912) The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough.
