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Re: Query
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Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:38:36 -0500
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matthew hofer wrote:
>
> Dear Carrol,
>
> The lines "BinBin 'is beauty'. / 'Slowness is beauty.'" are
> in Canto 87 (p. 592) and the phrase "slowness is beauty" also appears in
> Selected Letters (p. 255).
>
> Binbin is of course Laurence Binyon, whose
> bull-dog EP claimed to be.
>
>
Thanks -- the "bull-dog" is new to me, but remembering some of Pound's
observations on Binyon's translation, it is a good image. That  was one
great favor Pound did a lot of readers by guiding them to Binyon's
Dante.

Carrol

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