I have been teaching at the college level for eight years, and I know very few undergraduates who know about the Cantos. Even professors shy away from teaching them. When you get the Canto-bug, it gets pretty serious, I think. Hermetic, we are! But it's good, it's good! Really it is. (Maybe) -Grace D. Tim Bray wrote: > 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