Tangential associations. W.A.S.T.E.

[Mark Kohut]

Ashdown Forest is about an hour away from London
it seems. From Venerable Bede on, described as 
ugly. (eveidently compared to other forests. Author of Stone Cottage 
sez it is still nice) 

In the 19th Centry, a poet---Thomas Pentecost [can't make these names up; I'm
not him]---called it "a healthy waste of huts and dens/where human nature seldom
mends."

In late 1913, WB Yeats and Ezra Pound moved into a cottage on it and for the 
next
three years, inevitably added to the creation of what we call modernism in 
literature...

In his Pisan Cantos, Pound called the landscape 'the waste moors"............

We remember that The Wasteland was heavily shaped by Ezra, mostly by excision,
and was dedicated to him: "the better maker"...........