On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Richard Edwards wrote: > Many thanks for this. What is the title of the Berryman book? And why do you > say it is indefensible? > > In asking you to be more specific I perhaps ought to be more specific myself > about the passage I referred to in case any other list member wishes to > follow it up. (Yesterday I did not have the book with me). It is on page 50 > of Davie's book *Ezra Pound* (University of Chicago Press 1975) and it goes > like this: > > "But about this poem, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, it is best to be brief. This > poem is, and has proved to be, the most accessible of Pound's longer poems, > the one that it is easiest to start with. . . . Berryman's Book is called _Circe's Craft_ (with a subtitle). My critique of both Davie and Berryman can be found in a Paideuma article, "Irony and Common Sense: The Genre of Mauberley" (Spring 1989), which surveys the critical history of the poem. Basically, I attack Davie's assumption that the poem is written in a voice other than the poet's own--a misreading that has caused widespread confusion about how to read HSM. Stephen Adams Department of English University of Western Ontario London, Canada N6A-3K7 [log in to unmask]