tim,
     so it's to be read as judge hand speaking?
...an obsessive puritanic meditation against
bourgeois liberalism?...no irony?

    very nice...does seem to work.
bob



----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: cantico del sole


> Here's something posted to the list a while back by Matthew Hofer.
> Tim Romano
>
>
> Your epigraph is from "Cantico del Sole" (originally published in
> _Instigations_), a poem written after the decision by Judge Hand in March
of
> 1918 to ban the American distribution of the serialized "Nausikaa" chapter
> of James Joyce's _Ulysses_ (which had been serialized chapter by chapter
in
> _The Little Review_).
>
> The premise was that the same language that the court finds unacceptable
in
> a modern "classic" is permissible in the classics in translation because
> they "have the sanction of age and fame and USUALLY APPEAL TO A
> COMPARATIVELY LIMITED NUMBER OF READERS."  You can find this quotation and
> more in Pound's essay "The Classic's [sic.] Escape."  To this evaluation
of
> the controversial decision, he adds, "No more damning indictment of
American
> civilization has been written than that contained in Judge Hand's
> 'opinion.'"  The decision was not reversed until 1933.
>
> And you will find the poem on page 182 of Pound's _Personae: The Shorter
> Poems._
>
> Best,
>
> Matthew Hofer
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