tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post5816011502421849591..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: H.D. can writeJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-72323672431939919492011-06-21T01:54:55.733-05:002011-06-21T01:54:55.733-05:00I wonder if that could be generalized further: lon...I wonder if that could be generalized further: long poems will always have "something hard to swallow." Dante, Milton, Virgil, even Homer: all have some stuffing; all have to fill in their form in some way. Maybe Ovid doesn't?Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-11909256305649037342011-06-20T18:53:51.518-05:002011-06-20T18:53:51.518-05:00Briggflatts?Briggflatts?Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-47086411529113051272011-06-20T15:03:23.759-05:002011-06-20T15:03:23.759-05:00The equivalent in Stevens would be that kind of pr...The equivalent in Stevens would be that kind of pretentious but beautiful metalanguage, where in spite of the beauty of the terms the explanations are a little awkward. No modernist could write a long poem without some kind of ballast, bombast, or stuffing. Something hard to swallow.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-21737265774859759842011-06-20T15:00:17.216-05:002011-06-20T15:00:17.216-05:00Trilogy is definitely full of some of the best wri...Trilogy is definitely full of some of the best writing by any of the modernists. I always argue for H.D. to be included in any list of Stevens, Pound, Williams, and Eliot.<br /><br />If Trilogy is also full of truly weird shit, well, so are The Cantos, so is lots of Eliot and quite a bit of Williams. I'd say only Stevens, of those five, is relatively "uncranky," as it were.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.com