Composition in the Adams Cantos

Moody, A. David

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-22066-3_5

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“…Yet Pound was a poet obsessed with le mot juste, the "word that did justice to the thing." 16 Ignoring or glossing over the differences between midwife, surgeon, and "sage homme" in favor of a stock metaphor presents a skewed picture of Pound's self-assigned role in Anglo-American modernism.…”

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Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

Wilson

2019

Feminist Modernist Studies

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This essay reveals a flaw in the critical consensus that regards Ezra Pound as the intellectual "midwife" of The Waste Land, a metaphor used so frequently over the last century it has become a critical commonplace. By detailing the various ways that Pound's use of reproductive language was drawn from a contemporaneous medical debate about midwifery-a hitherto unrecognized influence-this essay provides a fuller understanding of the rhetoric Pound used to discredit female writers and editors, while also highlighting the importance of feminist attention to the critical conversation itself.

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“…Unlike "SAGE HOMME," the tone of the Fistulae poems is youthful desire and joy. 60 The distinct differences in tone imply that a different approach to the word "fistula" in "SAGE HOMME" is in order.…”

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Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

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2019

Feminist Modernist Studies

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Composition in the Adams Cantos

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Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

Was Ezra Pound the “midwife” ofThe Waste Land? Surgeons, midwives, and “sage homme”

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