"Poetry, her border of ideas,
The edge, uncertain, but a means of blending
With other strata
Where the lower and higher have ending;"

Is this "superpsition" intended to be "super position", "superb position",
or "superstition"? Could you define for us whichever term you intended?

Charles

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>From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Difficulty in Dante and Pound
>Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 6:15 PM
>

> 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