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Aha--that may explain why the work has not surfaced during Pound list
discussions. Thanks. Robert K> Robert
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> I think you refer to "Love Poems of Ancient Egypt" by Ezra Pound and
> Noel Stock.
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> There is a note in the front which says'
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> "These versions are based on literal renderings of the hieroglyphic
> texts into Italian by Boris de Rachewiltz, which first appeared...".
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> The front note goes on to detail the publication details for Boris'
> Italian renderings.
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> A note on the back cover states that only the poem "Conversations in
> Courtship" was translated from the Italian by Ezra Pound. All other
> poems in the book were translated from the Italian by Noel Stock.
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> Gallup designates the book A80.
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> Rick Seddon
I never submitted the whole system of my
opinions to the creed of any party of men
whatever...where I was capable of thinking
for myself. Such an addiction is the last
degredation of a free and moral agent. If I
could not go to heaven but with a party, I
would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson, from Paris, 1789
Robert E. Kibler, PhD
English and Humanities
Director, Northern Plains Writing Project
Minot State University
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