On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jacob Korg wrote:
 
> With regard to David Centrone's problem with the unity of the Cantos --
> somewhere Pound says that he has no use for the concept of "major form" --
> or some such term. But he did seem to have begun with some ideas about
> fugal form and the pattern of the Del Cossa frescoes, as in an early
> letter to his father.
 
A slight correction--
 
It's a mistake to think that EP seems to have "begun with some ideas about
fugal form" when writing cantos.  There's no evidence that Pound evoked
the fugal analogy until about 1928, when he was well into the poem.  I
wrote an article on the subject in ancient times.
 
                                Stephen Adams
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