Two Schools of Thought Some Tales of Learning and Romance

"There's a story about John Espey when he was a graduate student at the University of California. He had discovered Pound, and he wanted to write his dissertation on him. But his supervisor warned him, 'John, you're going to ruin your academic career by writing about this nut.' This was the climate. This was the difficulty. This was why it was necessary for some young people to go out and do something. You wouldn't believe how dreary it was for the avant-garde writers at that time. What changed it really in the end was simply the dying off of the old English professors. They gradually died, or retired--let's say they retired. The new young bloods were appointed to run the English departments, who were interested in the new kind of writing, who supported it and taught it."See, Carolyn is the author of 'Two Schools of Thought Some Tales of Learning and Romance', published 1991 under ISBN 9780936784885 and ISBN 0936784881.