Interesting, how TS Eliot's nickname was Possum, one known to Pound, and
here it is on the listserv. The quote you gave us from EP is great. Did
Pound view Eliot as spiritually dead? I know Pound edited "The
Wasteland." Or, was it more of a friendly shove? Tom NJ

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"Mr. Eliot who is at times an excellent poet and who has arrived at the
supreme Eminence among English critics largely through disguising
himself as a corpse once asked in the course of an amiable article what
'I believed'."
-- E.P., Credo (1930)

At 05:17 PM 1/24/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Old Possum's Book of Practical Cantos? I cant therefore I am able.
>
>GAVIN
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>on 1/24/03 4:02 PM, Tim Romano at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > Perfect. Thanks for resending.
> > Tim Romano
> >
> > P.S. Eudora thinks "postumi" is a spelling error and wants to change

> > it to "possum".