Davie is indeed a fine critic of Pound--usually.
     But I believe he made a mess of
"Mauberley," trying to read it as a dramatic monologue, which it patently
isn't.  I have a piece in Paideuma (Spring '89) that tries to sort out the
pieces.  But Davie's influence still obscures one of EP's most frequently
read early poems.
 
                                Stephen Adams
                                Department of English
                                University of Western Ontario
                                London, Canada  N6A-3K7
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