Pound started writing The Cantos around World War I and continued to compose more cantos throughout his life. They were published in groups. Sometimes 5 or 10 years went by before the next group was published. Some of the last cantos were composed in the 1960s. Tim Romano Mercedes Mcandrew wrote: >Hello, > >I am trying to confirm a date for a publication of one of Pound's works. It is said that New Directions >published The Cantos of Ezra Pound on July 30, 1948. Is that date correct? > >Thanks, > >Mercedes > >