sophie ratcliffe wrote: > Could anybody tell me where Pound said something along the lines of > > 'Bugger the punctuation what matters is for the first time to articulate the > thought'? > > With thanks, > > Sophie : The crisis of the drama May pivot on a comma, And tragic heroes risk All for an asterisk. So in despite of fate A man may consecrate A lifetime to anoint One poem with a point. X. J. Kennedy (Quoted from memory; I don't have the text. If memory serves me right, Joe pronounced the title something like "uh.") One critic devoted a whole book to arguing against pedantic correction of supposed errors in Canto IV -- the argument being that the "errors" were part of the thought and that cleaning up the text (as I believe Kenner had proposed) damaged it. (Sorry I can't remember the critic's name; the book was I think entitled *Pound and Error*.) Carrol