sophie ratcliffe wrote:
> Could anybody tell me where Pound said something along the lines of
>
> 'Bugger the punctuation what matters is for the first time to articulate the
> thought'?
>
> With thanks,
>
> Sophie
:
The crisis of the drama
May pivot on a comma,
And tragic heroes risk
All for an asterisk.
So in despite of fate
A man may consecrate
A lifetime to anoint
One poem with a point.
X. J. Kennedy
(Quoted from memory; I don't have the text. If memory serves
me right, Joe pronounced the title something like "uh.")
One critic devoted a whole book to arguing against pedantic
correction of supposed errors in Canto IV -- the argument
being that the "errors" were part of the thought and that
cleaning up the text (as I believe Kenner had proposed)
damaged it. (Sorry I can't remember the critic's name;
the book was I think entitled *Pound and Error*.)
Carrol