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Thank you very much! I found the poem, and this will
really help my paper if I can contextualize it. I am
a little confused though - is "Cantico del Sole" where
the quote originates, or has Pound taken it from
Hand's decision? I would like to understand this
clearly (and I don't yet have a copy of the essay you
mentioned, as I feel it relates intricately to my
thesis. I am writing about "make it new" and the
Imagiste Manifesto and how Pound translates Divus'
Odyssey in Canto I and 2 poems from the Confucian
Odes. It seems to me there is a notion of "the
classics" at stake - should the quote be taken to mean
ancient Greek and Roman literature, or something more
broad?
I will continue looking for the essay. Thanks again
for your speedy and helpful reply.
Melissa
--- matthew hofer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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<html><div>Dear Melissa,</div>
<br>
<div>Your epigraph is from "Cantico del
Sole" (originally
published in _Instigations_), a poem written after the
decision by Judge
Hand in March of 1918 to ban the American distribution
of the serialized
"Nausikaa" chapter of James Joyce's
_Ulysses_ (which had been
serialized chapter by chapter in _The Little
Review_).</div>
<br>
<div>The premise was that the same language that the
court finds
unacceptable in a modern "classic" is
permissible in the
classics in translation because they "have the
sanction of age and
fame and USUALLY APPEAL TO A COMPARATIVELY LIMITED
NUMBER OF
READERS." You can find this quotation and
more in Pound's
essay "The Classic's [sic.] Escape."
To this evaluation
of the controversial decision, he adds, "No more
damning indictment
of American civilization has been written than that
contained in Judge
Hand's 'opinion.'" The decision was not
reversed until
1933.</div>
<br>
<div>And you will find the poem on page 182 of Pound's
_Personae: The
Shorter Poems._</div>
<br>
<div>Best,</div>
<br>
<br>
Matthew Hofer<br>
Managing Editor<br>
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