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| | Hugh Kenner Documentary |
 | | Kenner, who retired from UGA in 1999, will be the subject of a half-hour documentary, Hugh Kenner: A Modern Master, which will receive its premiere on Thursday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. |
 | | Kenner, a native of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, met controversial poet Ezra Pound in 1948 when Pound was incarcerated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., having been ruled mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of treason for broadcasts he made from Rome during WWII. |
 | | Kenner's masterpiece is arguably his book The Pound Era, which is a large-scale critical survey about the sharp break with the past for which Pound was a catalyst, beginning in the first and second decades of the Twentieth Century in London, Rome and Rapallo, Italy. |
| www.uga.edu /news/newsbureau/releases/2000releases/hugh_kenner.html (638 words) |
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