NP but modernism in literature---1 of 2

[Mark Kohut]

I have been reading, when I've had a chance, some modernist poetry I had not, (or rereading if I had) and
some essays about from some big Routledge Press book full of scholars. 
 
Modernism in poetry is built on Pound and Eliot, most agree. Other streams, WC Williams' plainspeaking poetry with his anti-Wasteland
words---poetry for the academics---are minor or have dead-ended (these academics say, perhaps proving Williams right. So far)
 
The more I read about Eliot, the more one can run influence or parallel tracks re Pynchon and the novel. Imho. Themes, vision, most importantly
but via allusiveness of the text, using foreign languages and more. 
 
I think it is Pound--if not, then T.S.--who wrote the brief for why poetry must be "diificult"....the modern world is so complex, the old forms 
are dead, cannot capture it, cannot give us overarching new myths.  We remember TRP embracing "difficulty" ---but without this defense or allusion. 
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