At 09:41 PM 1/16/00 EST, CB Rizzo wrote: >I've been searching for information pertaining to Pound & Futurism (pref. >pre-war), but haven't had much luck. Did Pound know those Futurist fellows at >all? If anyone could offer some assistance it would be much appreciated. Four authors who discuss the connection are: Vincent Sherry, in _Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism_ (OUP, 1993), pp. 13-15; and Daniel Albright, Ronald Bush, and Reed Way Dasenbrock, in their essays in _The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound_. And offhand I can think of two Pound references to the arch-Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. In Canto 72 Pound pays tribute to Marinetti's Fascism, but in _Selected Letters 1907-1941_, letter 274 (date: 1934), he writes off Marinetti's aesthetic experiments as unoriginal. And there's an almost new anthology that makes the connections in an interestingly offbeat way. This is _Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents_, ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou (University of Chicago Press, 1998). Jonathan Morse