Seamus Cooney sent me the following helpful note on the Pound Era: You wrote: "Jonathan Morse asked about Pound's announcement that the Christian era was over. That announcement is well known, but for the life of me I can't recall--or locate--the specific place or time. My fuzzy old brain thinks it was published in the LITTLE REVIEW, but earlier than 1922." Not sure if this is helpful, but ... In one of Pound's 1951 letters to Wyndham Lewis about _Rude Assignment_, he remarks of Joyce's _Ulysses_, "Book had to be PUT over, fer practical reason/ but cert/ I sd/ it was an END not a start/ P.S.U. after that FINISH/ period of rot, p.t.c what he may have absorbed later ..." [quoted from BLAST 3 [1984], 165]. Bryant Knox's note to this passage reads: "In the Spring 1922 isse of _The Little Review_, Pound marked 'the end of the Christian era' and proclaimed the birth of a new pagan period, 'YEAR 1 p.s.U' (post scriptum _Ulysses_, presumably).... 'P.t.c' is unexplained." (I guessed "post tempore Christi" for the "p.t.c.") ____________________________________________________________________________ _ Seamus Cooney, Department of English, Western Michigan University 1201 Oliver Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Ph (616)387-2560 http://www.wmich.edu/english/fac/Cooney.html Leon Surette English Dept. University of Western Ontario London, Ont. N6A 3K7