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    <body><![CDATA[Classic. I kind of love how it feels like he's yelling at you, with his fondness for caps and italics. Much wisdom and strong opinion to be found here; makes me want to work hard, read Homer in ancient Greek, etc.<br/><br/>&quot;Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10721294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pound loves to quote himself -- like Cocteau, &quot;Etonnez-moi&quot; -- surprise me -- is the order of the day to ensure that words are charged with meaning with logo-melo-phano-poetic roots growing deep underneath.  (42: phanopoeia: throwing a visual image on the mind; Melopoeia: melodic invention...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31121784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is perhaps the ellipsis of things thought through and taken for granted that lends Pound's writings about writing their didactic tone. It also tends to leave me wanting more-- not necessarily in a good way, because I have come to realize that they are not being hidden in some other book (unless o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30454098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the outset, it's important to note that Mr. Pound offers ABC of Reading as a &quot;text-book that can also be read 'for pleasure as well as profit' by those no longer in school; by those who have not been to school; or by those who in their college days suffered those things which most of my own ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/377429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ezra pound's cryptic, and often arrogant pamphlet about the principles of successful poetry is an interesting insight into the quality of the artist as a learned reader of classical poetry in the lyric form (primarily). Pound does not value any critics who have not produced works of literature thems...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34782017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contains an advocacy of Chaucer more vehement than I ever heard from the professional Middle Englishers at college. 'You would not be far out if you chose to consider Chaucer as the father of litterae humaniores for Europe.' Huh. The appreciations of Gavin Douglas, Golding and Fielding also caught m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26548081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome book!  I'm not a big fan of Pound's very dense work of poetry, but these essays explain his philosophies on poetics on several levels and offer points to back up what he is saying from a  cultural and language perspective.  This book greatly improved my own sensibilities. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   'A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax.<br/>&quot;It concerns the relation of expression to meaning. Abrupt and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10821255">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this a 5 because I think this is what Pound was meant to do: teach and be a critic. I'm not crazy about his poems at all. There are some ridiculous demands in this book (like learning several foreign languages) but overall there's a ton of excellent insights. I especially like what he wrote a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3719048">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolute punk rock book of insights, raves, rants, condemnations, fury and exquisite heft.  I really enjoyed his puckish, piquant, I'm-Ezra-Pound-and-you're-not kinda vibe.<br/><br/>&quot;Literature is news that STAYS news&quot;....absolutely gaddamn right.<br/><br/>What I always find is the cat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40910630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here follows a list of the quotable parts, for the benefit of someone who wants to get the gist of this book without reading it:<br/><br/>&quot;Literature is language charged with meaning.  Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79482294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardest 200 pages I've read in years! Pound was extremely opinionated about literature and was amazingly well read...in several languages. His examples in Italian and Latin were entirely lost on me, but I'd imagine that was his point: he was smarter and better educated than I am. I'd've gladly &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63673482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[His holding Crabbe over Pope was instructive, but shouldn't there be a place in poetry for people like Pope, who say what they believe outright instead of showing it through narrative or whatever? <br/><br/>Purportedly, this is a textbook. I'd be interested to hear if anyone teaching now has used ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57680096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written very informally, The ABC of Reading is a refreshing review of Pound's favorite poetry, with his own personal explanations for what is valuable about each excerpt. Pound's aesthetic creed preached unapologetically. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first few pages might suffice: they can force a needed demolition job on much of the garbage we've all been fed and led to follow over the years.  How to categorize pound?  &quot;The Wasteland ~ A Facsimile&quot; shows what an incredible editor he was; Hugh Kenner's indispensable &quot;Pound Era...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8791715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An iconoclastic view of the nature and meaning of literature.  Worth reading for the challenge and for the insights into the nature of poetry and the classics.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[for those of us willing to kill ourselves for words.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ezra pound invites you into his classroom to be punished for the way you read, the way you write, and the way you think about reading and writing.  i like when he speaks to his readers in the third person and refers to us as children.  i learned a lot from this book but i'm glad ezra pound wasn't re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34977254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this book will be totally useless to a person not as heavily steeped in obscure literature as Ezra Pound.  However, the second part of the book has a few gems for the English major.  Pound's tips on how to round out your reading are good and he makes in interesting case against tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26152546">more...</a>]]></body>
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