At 10:29 AM 8/14/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Apologies if this query has already been covered - I'm a new subscriber.
>Could somebody please tell me what collection is Pound's poem entitled
>''The Alchemist'' from (if any), and what year it was written? Any
>other information also welcomed.
>Best wishes
>Marcella
>
Gallup mentions the poem for the first time it in the contents list of Umbra (1920) as:
RIPOSTES: [...] - The Alchemist, unpublished 1912 -
In Personae (1952) the contents have it as the last poem of Ripostes (1912). I think Gallup is right.
Piet Wesselman