Thanks very much for this reference, which I shall certainly follow up with great interest. I'd be interested in hearing some views on Hill's account of the poem. Richard Edwards >From: "s.j. adams" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Henry James in Canto 7 >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:39:18 -0500 > >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] > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com