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arisbeI know that what Nietzsche said is true,
And yet—
I saw the face of a little child in the street,
And it was beautiful.
This previously uncollected poem of Ezra Pound appears in Poems and Translations, now published by the Library of America. The link is to a review by the great Guy Davenport in Bookforum. With Kenner gone, Davenport is, I suppose, the leading Poundian scholar and critic, at any rate one I have admired for many years. To his edition of the scientific writings of Louis Agassiz I owe my understanding of what Charles Peirce meant by Scotistic Realism, an understanding not particularly welcome to the outside reader of my dissertation, who happened to be the department chair...
And yet—
I saw the face of a little child in the street,
And it was beautiful.
This previously uncollected poem of Ezra Pound appears in Poems and Translations, now published by the Library of America. The link is to a review by the great Guy Davenport in Bookforum. With Kenner gone, Davenport is, I suppose, the leading Poundian scholar and critic, at any rate one I have admired for many years. To his edition of the scientific writings of Louis Agassiz I owe my understanding of what Charles Peirce meant by Scotistic Realism, an understanding not particularly welcome to the outside reader of my dissertation, who happened to be the department chair...