ABC of reading
by Ezra Pound · first published 1934
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ABC of Reading is a good but extremely curmudgeonly guide to poetry in English through the ages. (He would rather have written a guide to european poetry, and it shows, but his publisher (Faber?) insisted it focus on…
on “Stuck with Pound” ↗Ezra Pound's ~ABC of Reading~ changed the way I read poetry and literary fiction. When, much later, I started to be interested in technical things I don't think I found it too hard to adapt, but I still focus on style, allusion,…
on “How to Read a Book [pdf]” ↗Pound's ABC of Reading[0] has been popular since its publication. I would inlcude Adler's How to Read a Book[1] as well. While these focus on literature, I think that there is a lot of overlap in technical and CS based writing.…
on “Ask HN: Book suggestions for mindful information consumption” ↗…was sufficient protection against fascism. In Pound we have someone who railed against provincialism and secondary sources in early work, yet wound up broadcasting pro-fascist propaganda for Mussolini. ABC of Reading (ch 3. p 42): > "One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT…
on “Stuck with Pound” ↗…Aesthetics of James Joyce by Jacques Aubert. Joyce had a Jesuit education. Aristotle's influence is immediate, palpable, and bears incredible fruit. [-] A fair bit of Ezra Pound's poetry and criticism (ABC of Reading, Guide to Kulchur, The Spirit of Romance, various essay collections like Machine Art and Other Writings, and so on). Pound was influenced not only by the Metaphysics but by the Nicomachean Ethics and…
on “Ask HN: What literature do you read?” ↗Interesting. Did you first encounter the Agassiz story in Pound's ABC of Reading? And was the recitation to be from memory?
on “Look at Your Fish (2016)” ↗>for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Oh, I see. We actually discussed Pound about four years ago - just a little back and forth about the ABC of Reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196681 >What's your explanation of why Pound went Fascist? I'm not sure I particularly have one; I haven't read any of his longer political or cultural (i.e.…
on “What makes a translation great?” ↗He may as well have been cancelled, as I'm utterly unfamiliar with him. Will report back on whether I got any useful bits out of "Guide to Kulchur" and "ABC of Reading" after I've read a bit of them. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sunfish was certainly worth some reflection, although Pound's willingness to translate chinese poetry without knowing…
on “Stuck with Pound” ↗