[New-Poetry] Basil Bunting

[Jeff Newberry]

Robin,

Help me out here.  You're saying that "Villon" is either a) plagiarism (but,
egad, what Modernist work--outside of perhaps Stein--isn't?) or b) a pale
imitation of Pound, no?

Can you say a bit more here?  Not trying to be testy--just genuinely
interested.

Best,
Jeff Newberry

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Robin Hamilton <
robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

>  Yikes!!  I've just read Bunting's "Villon", published in *Poetry* in 1930
> ...
> **
>         http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=8198
>
> Unnerving.  I didn't think it would have been possible to overlay the early
> Cantos onto snibbits from "The Testament", but there you are.
>
> I have to say, this confirms my reluctance to take Bunting at all
> seriously.
>
>         <g>
>
> Years ago, Pierre Joris, who filled me in on B. B.'s mideast espionage
> career ...
>
> Hm ...  I hadn't known he was an actual spook.
>
> I carefully didn't mention the *Agenda* connection.
>
> Robin
>
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