At 02:22 PM 31/07/01 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote: >... when I was first reading the Cantos practically alone >back in the late '50s. Which raises a question in the mind of this non-scholar, the answer to which may be at the mental fingertips of the titans of erudition on-list: how popular is this stuff anyhow? Did ND ever say how many copies of various Canto collections they've shipped over the years? I guess not counting the ones that are compulsory undergrad fare. [Er, I did math, I'm assuming that English undergrads are exposed to Cantos?] Put another way: just exactly how hermetic and weird are we all, anyhow? -Tim