Burt-- Since no one else has jumped in I will: See Literary Essays, p. 71, in “Mr Housman at Little Bethel,” or Guide to Kulchur 73. Probably elsewhere as well. Stephen Adams Burt Hatlen wrote: >Dear Pounders, > >Donna Hollenberg, who is writing a biography of Denise Levertov, has sent me the following query: "I'm trying to locate where Pound quoted Spinoza's statement, "The intellectual love of a thing is the understanding of its perfections." Levertov says >she read this statement in Pound ( but she doesn't say where). There is no Concordance of EP's prose, so I thought I'd ask the community of EP scholars." > >Anyone who can answer this query can send the answer to me, and I will forward it to Donna. Or you can send your response directly to her at the address in the cc line above. > >Burt Hatlen > > -- Stephen Adams Department of English University of Western Ontario "Of making many books there is no end." –Ecclesiastes 12:12