And my levity on the subject probably masked my admiration for the teacher.

Jacob Korg wrote:

>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
>
>
>

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