Electra--
The "history" of the text of _the Cantos_ is labyrinthine for both
mechanical and political reasons.
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I think there
should be some words explaining the change
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Indeed, the problem is that many of the changes to the text have been
quirky, even arbitrary. The definitive study is by Barbara Eastman
_Ezra Pound's Cantos: The Story of the Text 1948-1975_. Orono, ME:
National Poetry Foundation, 1979.
Jon Ausubel