Well said, Ric, and good question!     John Makin.
 
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> From:         Richard Caddel[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> Sent:         Monday, October 18, 1999 10:34 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Basil Bunting
> 
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:36:56 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Ric Caddel, are you out there?  If so, I want to get the Durham
> >University Studies volume on Bunting.  Can you help?
> >
> >Burt Hatlen
> 
> Thanks for the opportunity for the commercial break, Burt: that's:
> Sharp Study and Long Toil: Basil Bunting Special Issue ed. R. Caddel;
> Durham University Journal Suppement, 1995. Price £10.00, Cheques
> (Sterling only, I'm afraid) made to University of Durham. Orders to:
> Basil Bunting Poetry Centre, Durham University Library, Palace Green,
> Durham DH1 3RN, UK.
> 
> On page 101 of this publication (in an article by John Seed) is a
> quote from a letter, BB to EP, 1938, which is relevant to the present
> discussion on this list:
> 
> "Every anti-semitism, anti-niggerism, anti-moorism, that I can recall
> in history was base, had its foundation in the meanest kind of envy
> and in greed. It makes me sick to see you covering yourself with that
> filth. It is not an arguable question, has not been arguable for at
> least nineteen centuries... it is hard to see how you are going to
> stop the rot of your mind and heart without a pretty thoroughgoing
> repudiation of what you have spent a lot of work on."
> 
> Everyone knows, from BB's flyleaf-of-pound's-cantos ode about a decade
> later, how enduring Bunting's respect for Pound was. My question is:
> who else from the poetry world, apart from BB, was calling Pound wrong
> in such unequivocal terms, in 1938?
> 
> Richard Caddel, Durham
>