Merely Transitional

September 8th, 2011 ‡ 0 comments

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If the expansion was incremental, it still happened awfully fast. In the poetry of Pound, the revolutionary who now looks merely transitional because he was so far outstripped by what he started . . .

via Product Placement in Modern Poetry by Clive James.

Describes a lot of today’s stuff, I guess. The New Schtick is merely transitional.

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