Dear Tim: I was going tosecond Dirk's suggestion about Sordello before he beat me to it. But you have been noble enough in trying to get both graduates and undergranduates through the great traditional epics. I didn't at first see how the Browning poems would fit in -- but there may be a valid connection through the Italian setting many of them have, plus the meditations on the nature of art. A small and perhaps trite tip to all and sundry plus Stoner; entry to many of Pound;'s obscruties is through his own superpsition -- the contiguity of apparently unrelated particulars. Jacob Korg