ABC of Reading (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound

ABC of Reading (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound

Author:Ezra Pound [Pound, Ezra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780811223164
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2016-03-24T16:00:00+00:00


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Chaucer is aware of life … parity with Shakespeare. He is informed, and understands the intellectual conquests of Europe … in a way that Will Shakespeare probably did not. …..

He is open minded, let us say to folk-lore, to the problems Frazer broaches, in a way that Shakespeare certainly was not.

Shakespeare was greatly indifferent. He was fanciful. He was a technical master. The gross and utter stupidity and obtuseness of Milton was never more apparent than in his supercilious reference to ‘Woodnotes wild’.



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