Carrol, If you haven't compared Adams' writings to what EP filtered into the Cantos - at least Frederik Sanders has done so, in the 70s: "John Adams Speaking - Pound's Sources for the Adams' Cantos". An indispensable book [U of Maine at Orono P]. Incidentally - Basil Bunting once told an interviewer (might have been in the "American Odyssey" film on EP) that he found The Adams Cantos [of all Cantos !] "very entertaining". And indeed they are. alex ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________ Alexander Schmitz - Kleine Moorstrasse 8 A - P.O. Box - D-21636 Horneburg - Germany - Tel: 0049-4163-7565 - Fax: 7565 - Mobil: 0160-99117868 "Complete objectivity about America is a characteristic only of God and Alexis de Tocqueville" - Walter A. McDougall