(I thought I had sent this on Thursday but by mistake sent it off list to another poster.) I'm not sure what Pound or anyone else means by "major form" (whether they are demanding it or condemning it). But there are major works concerning which the critics have laboreed mightily to identify the form, without major success (success being measured by the consensus a given view attains). It is always easy to give a label and call it form. Examples: _Winter's Tale_, _Canterbury Tales_, _Paradise Regained_, _Dunciad_, _Don Juan_, _Moby Dick_. The "form" that is missing from the _Cantos_ seems, primarily, the kind of form that eases the work of explication by providing a framework on which to distribute the commentary. If you want the masochistic pleasure of seeing to what heights of dulness the chase after form can rise I recommend two books, both by Barbara Lewalski: _Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained_ (1966) and _Paradise Lost: The Rhetoric of of Literary Forms_ (1985). Don't say I didn't warn you if you choose tofollow this recommendation. Carrol Cox