http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmd/dth/levavas.htm

HTH,
Tim Romano


At 06:57 PM 7/23/02 +0100, Will Richmond wrote:
>Dear scholars,
>
>I wonder if anyone can help me identify some people.
>They are no doubt terribly obvious, but I'd like a more authoritative
>opinion than my uneducated guess-work.
>
>They are the names Pound joked about as the subject of the "last epic"
>before the literary Dark Age, in a letter to his mother of 1910.
>(referred to in Stock, p.80)
>
>"a rhetorical epic" through which "would move Marconi, Pierpoint Morgan,
>Bleriot, Levavasour, Lathan, Peary, Dr Cook, etc."
>
>The first three are, of course, quite clear,.  I would, however, like some
>help confirming the rest.
>I can only assume that Dr Cook and Peary are the explorer (who returned
>from the Arctic in 1909) and admiral involved in the McKinley Hoax, but
>I'm ashamed to admit that I don't understand why Pound would suggest this
>pair even in jest.
>
>As for Levavasour and Lathan, I'm somewhat in the dark.
>
>Also, for interest's sake, would anyone speculate (from the vantage point
>of a more comprehensive study of Pound) who some of the "etc." might be.
>
>I look forward to your thoughts.
>
>Will Richmond