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I applaud you on your endeavor, Michael. Remembering back on how I started, I read the selected cantos before I moved on to the entire work itself. The internet makes an informed study easier, but I read for years sometimes without understanding certain characters or events.
There are very few characters in the Cantos who are not real people, and I don't remember that Pound invented any of the fictional characters.
I found that Carroll Terrell's Companion to the Cantos, Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era, and a Donald Davie book (forgot the name, sorry) and they really helped me. In fact I backpacked around Europe with Kenner's book as a guide and it helped me immensely.
All that being said, if any text cries out for the hypertext treatment, it is the Cantos!
Good luck, Michael, and keep us informed on your progress and struggles.
Tom Pare'
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From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine on behalf of Michael Scott
Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 4:24 AM
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Subject: a beginner begins
i came late to office life but found that a regular lunch hour gave me
an opportunity to read fat books slowly
so - in keeping with the times - i've begun on The Cantos
if no one objects i'm going to treat this list as my oracle - here's
the first lazy question
the initial pages read like a ticker tape parade of history - are
there fictional characters of Pound's own making in the Cantos - or is
every name i meet someone i could go look up on Wikipedia
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