“Objectivists” 1927-1934 Section 17 - René Taupin’s André Salmon Contents

Notes - Section 17 - René Taupin’s André Salmon

1 The “Objectivists” asserted the “anemia” of Symbolisme; e.g., Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, p. 84, and Reznikoff, The Contemporary Writer, p. 206. In 1932, René Taupin hired Zukofsky to write an extended treatise on Apollinaire, which was published in two parts in the Westminster Magazine: “The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire Le Flaneur; I—IL YA,” in 22, 4 (Winter 1933), 9-47, and “The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire: II—Le Poéte Ressuscite; III—& Cie,” in 23, 1 (Spring 1933), 7-46. It was published as a whole only in French: Le Style Apollinaire (Paris: Les Presses Modernes, 1934). Zukofsky’s manuscripts are at Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

2 Poetry (February 1931), 290.

3 Zukofsky, Letter to Pound, 6 November 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 64-68, No. 29. See Section 13.

4 Poetry (February 1931), 290.

5 Poetry (February 1931), 290.

6 Poetry (February 1931), 293.

7 Poetry (February 1931), 290.

8 Poetry (February 1931), 291-292.

9 Poetry (February 1931), 292-193. Taupin’s relation of nominalism to Eisenstein’s esthetic was substantiated by Parker Tyler’s comparision of the methods of Eisenstein and Pound. See The Shadow of an Airplane Climbs the Empire State Building: A World Theory of Film (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), pp. 11, 19, 2 (”What speaks eloquently to us at this point is the value of the technical factor: the film. We arrived—not too abruptly—at a mutual formula that covers the case of Pound and Eisenstein: this is our theory: FILM MONTAGE = HISTORY”), 29, 33, and 60-61.

10 “The Mind’s Own Place,” Montemora (Fall 1979), 133.

11 Poetry, 37, 6 (March 1931), 333-334.

12 Poetry (March 1931), 333, 335.

13 Poetry (March 1931), 337.

14 Poetry (February 1931), 268.

15 “’Recencies’ in Poetry,” An “Objectivists” Anthology, pp. 23, 31.