Dear Tim:
        I was going tosecond Dirk's suggestion about Sordello before he
beat me to it. But you have been noble enough in trying to get both
graduates and undergranduates through the great traditional epics.
        I didn't at first see how the Browning poems would fit in -- but
there may be a valid connection through the Italian setting  many of
them have, plus the meditations on the nature of art.
        A small and perhaps trite tip to all and sundry plus Stoner; entry
to many of Pound;'s obscruties is through his own superpsition -- the
contiguity of apparently unrelated particulars.
                        Jacob Korg