voleboy wrote:
Quote:The thought of CAS and e. e. cummings duking it out is one, I must say, that brings a smile to my face, and a tear of pleasure to my eye.
The thought of CAS applying his saber to cummings brings a tear of pleasure to mine. ;-) (Yes, I have yet to live up to my own above-referenced "utopian" ideals, but I'm working on it!).
Regarding Jeffers, the following quotation from CAS's "On Fantasy" gives us at least an inkling of his views on that subject:
"One may write of horses and hippopotomi but not of hippogriffs; of biographers, but not of ghouls; of slum-harlots or the hetairae of Nob Hill but not of succubi. In short, all pipe-dreams, all fantasies not authorized by Freudianism, by sociology, and the five senses, are due for the critical horse-laugh, when, through ignorance, effrontery, or preference, they find a place in the subject matter of some author unlucky enough to have been born into the age of Jeffers, Hemingway, and Joyce".