Observation: lots of listmembers have been looking for Pound's declaration of the new epoch, but nobody has been able to pin it down. Conclusion: Michael Coyle probably has the right idea: Pound may have coined the phrase "The Pound Era," but he never made much of it. By 1921, anyway, he was taking a long historical view which included both himself and others. His December 24 letter to Eliot about _The Waste Land_ (Paige, _Selected Letters_ no. 181) is dated "An 1" and concludes, "It is after all a grrrreat littttttterary period." Jonathan Morse