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Also, Pound himself gives a very amusing reading of the poem on the 2
cassettes available of his readings, which include some of the Cantos.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alexander Schmitz
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 1998 4:45 AM
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Subject: Cantico del Sole
Temur,
"Cantico del Sole" is the last poem in the "Moeurs Contemporaines" group
you'll find in
the Collected SHORTER Poems, not the Coll. EARLY Poems. In my Faber ed.
[repr. of ND 1949
"Personae"] it's on p. 183:
Cantico del Sole
(From "Instigations")
The thought of what Amwerica would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep.
Nunc dimittis, now lettest thou thy servant,
Now lettest thou thy servant
Depart in peace.
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation . . .
Oh well !
It troubles my sleep.
[attached is a longer note by Gallup saying that the poem concluded the
essay "The Classics
>Escape<" in "Instigations" of 1920. My reprint of "Instigations" (Books For
Libraries Press,
Freeport, NY 1969) however doesn't contain that essay; and I haven't looked
into Gallup yet to
find out if maybe it's available in other prose collections [I'd rather say
no]... Anyway, it's in the
CEP.
alex
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