Of course I keep thinking of the impact that the mental intellect of the
young EP had on his contemporaries.  One example is his nurturing of H.D.
(well before the British Museum episode) as is evinced in her "End to
Torment" and her palimpsesting of him in "Helen in Egypt" and "Winter Love"
not to mention also her novels!
 
And later--much later--his nurturing of Iris Barry who, when she became
curator of the film collection at MOMA, turned to him for help in selecting
titles for building a library for the collection.
 
These are sides of EP that tend to get swallowed up in the political and
economical aspects -- he was a rich and varied individual with enormous
talent and vitality and that is part of his appeal to so many of us, myself
included!
 
Incidentally, I read the Cantos purely for enjoyment and have never studied
them academically!
 
Louis H. Silverstein
 
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Louis H. Silverstein
Literary Anthropologist (specializing in H.D. and her circle as well as
things mysterious)
(e-mail: [log in to unmask])
 
"Books determine, have determined, will determine our lives, as readers and
writers, and for this, let us give thanks."  Lawrence Clark Powell.  BOOKS
WEST SOUTHWEST  (1957: 37)