[LMB] OT: First book, second language - topic drift! Topic drift!

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:17:09 +0800, "Alex Y. Kwan" <litalex at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,

> James Burbidge wrote:

>> Hemingway, James, Dickinson, Faulkner et al. are American Lit., not
>> English or British lit (since I've included some Scots and Irish-born
>  
>

> Well, can Henry James's work be considered as only American literature 
> when the man himself ended up as a British subject?

> little Alex

Not to mention that he apparently thinks of Pound as an Englishman; although old Ezra's writing is reminiscent of Browning, he was as American as apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream ... no, make that a slice of nice sharp cheddar. (As far as I am concerned, politics aside, Pound was the greatest poet the US produced in his period. I still read "Ancient Music" every December, and "Ballad of the Goodly Fere" every Easter, Christian though I am not.)


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