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HEMINGWAY AND THE POETS.(novelist Ernest Hemingway)

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From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 20010322
Author:MCFARLAND, RON

ALLUSIONS TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY appear in predictable places in poetry--in Ezra Pound's Cantos, for example, most notably in #16, where Hemingway is listed among other writers and artists who went off to battle in the Great War:

   And Ernie Hemingway went to it, 
   too much in a hurry, 
   And they buried him for four days. (72) 

This Canto, which begins, "And hell mouth; dry plain and two mountains," was written around 1925; Hemingway met Pound in Paris, through Sherwood Anderson's letter of introduction, when he arrived in 1921. About halfway through the Canto, Pound turns ...

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