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> There were direct connections between Futurism (the Italian artistic movement) and Fascism, and Futurism influenced Vorticism. This is really rather shoddy g
by dri_ft 6y ago
> There were direct connections between Futurism (the Italian artistic movement) and Fascism, and Futurism influenced Vorticism.
This is really rather shoddy guilt-by-association - and second degree association at that.
He's a valuable critic and I am certainly grateful to him for i) turning me onto a number of European poets from times and tongues I would not otherwise have turned my attention to, and ii) for sharpening my concept of what poetry is and should be. I don't know what it means to talk of 'cancelling' a writer from a century ago but not to have his work would certainly be a loss.
- pasabagi 6y ago> This is really rather shoddy guilt-by-association - and second degree association at that. Really? I was always told that the Futurists tried to position themselves as the official artists of Fascism (but they were sadly not conservative enough).
- dri_ft 6y agoI believe that's true so far as it goes. I'm more concerned about the hop from futurism to vorticism (and thence to Pound's politics). I don't doubt that there are good reasons to think Ezra Pound a fascist, but I don't think his involvement with vorticism is one of them.
- pjc50 6y ago> I don't doubt that there are good reasons to think Ezra Pound a fascist The radio broadcasts for Mussolini were a bit of a giveaway.