Ezra Pound – Dr Rob Spence

Constellation of Genius

December 28, 2012By Rob Spence • Posted in Uncategorized Tags: – 1922., Clive James, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Kevin Jackson, Modernism, TS Eliot • 2 Comments

The footnotes – and there are plenty of them – in Kevin Jackson’s brilliant account of Modernism in 1922 are printed in a fetching purplish shade. I wondered, as I read, enthralled, whether this was a subliminal allusion to Eliot’s phrase from The Waste Land, when Tiresias observes the assault by the clerk on the… Continue reading Constellation of Genius

Venice

October 17, 2010By Rob Spence • Posted in Uncategorized Tags: – Canaletto, Canarregio, Ezra Pound, Florian's, Monteverdi, Philip Thorby, Simon Barraclough, Venice, Vespers • No Comments

To Venice, with ‘er indoors. Both of us were experiencing The Serenissima for the first time. The new image at the top of the blog is a photograph taken from the Rialto bridge, and it, like so many other photos we took, is eerily reminiscent of a Canaletto painting. And that’s the thing with Venice… Continue reading Venice

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Constellation of Genius

Venice