pensamiento critico y practica poetica en donald davie - Universidad ...

Davie matiza aun más e identifica el subjetivismo norteamericano como
un experimentalismo individualista, lúdico y optimista. Refiriéndose al libro de
Pierre Beulle (1965) Garclens on the Moon en el que dos alemanes hablan de
los americanos, Davie escribe:
Those verbal contraptions... Ezra Pounds cantos... Louis Zukofskys A., Paterson
by William carlos Williams, chanes Olson’s Maximus Poems... aPI of lhem, 1 see,
do have the characteristics fhaf Pierre Bouile’s ficfifious Germans fry lo iselafe.
experimenting just for fhe sake of expeiimenfing’, indiiference lo failures, ove of
feeling fheirway’. (XC, 142-143)
Más aún, el experimentalismo norteamericano es grandioso y
teorizador, cualidades éstas ajenas a la sensibilidad inglesa.
These American poems, of which Ihe earliest exarnple no doubl is Wa¡h Whihmans
‘Song of Myself, are br mosf Englisil readers unreadable, in the tboroughly
egitimate sense thaf, even ib file reader Es earnest and assiduous, still ‘lite Es toe
short’. mere Es toe, En tile Englishman’s sense of file matier, something cornical
about hile simply measurable enormily of diese undertakings. And tilen tilere Es, ter
geod or II, hile Englishmans distmst of file Iheoretical. For American poefs like
Pound er Olsen, though lhey feel hileir way’, nevertheless hileorize about it, boíl
before and during Ihe evení. (Xc, 142-143)
El experimentalismo, la teorización y la grandiosidad son también
ajenos a la concepción británica del artista como artesano:
One way fo selve hile dilemma, a way filal appeals to me, Es fo mainfain fha!
hewever it may be En ofher áreas, muddl¡ng fhrough has never been fhe procedure
ef hile Englisil art¡st, who has been en fhe conlrary - fhink of George Herber! aid
Robed Henick - characterist¡caily a precisian, and a miniafur¡st. Anotiler way of
saying fhis would be fhaf En ah fhe arts fhe Englisil way has been tewards blurring
file distincfion befween artist and craftsman.