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Sender: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 07:19:07 -0500
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From: Jon Ausubel <[log in to unmask]>
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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

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