Thanks Richard! Have modified now. I think it reads with the 'round' after 'way' but what matters is to put it right! Cheers, R PS Zukofsky review OK as is? Quoting Richard Parker <[log in to unmask]> on Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:28:27 +0000: > This looks great - it's amazing to have one of these projects on The > Cantos actually coming to fruition - I look forward to it growing > and growing! > > I think the Bunting quote on the front page is > "You will have to go a long round way if you want to avoid them." > not > "You will have to go a long way if you want to avoid them." > > r. > > >> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:47:03 +0000 >> From: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Timing the thunder >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> Dear Poundians, >> >> I am very happy to announce that on Ezra's birthday this year, The >> Cantos Project is officially launched. The platform now is fully >> operational and awaits our scholarly input. >> >> Please have a look at http://www.thecantosproject.org. >> >> A few words about it: >> >> TCP is a website that aims to fulfil a dream that scholars have had >> since 1986: to have a second edition of Terrell's Companion - at best >> in electronic form so errors can be corrected and information added on >> a continuous basis without overwhelming the poem or the student. >> Though attempts have been made along the years (we all still remember >> Kybernekia) technology was not coping with our needs, nor were we >> coping with what technology demanded. >> >> My position is that we are now ready. We can do it with the platform I >> am proposing. (Which I dearly hope you will like). >> >> When I presented the project at the EPIC conference in Dublin last >> year, Alec Marsh, the society's former president, generously offered >> me the sponsorship I needed for it. In his vision, the Cantos Project >> was to be located at the heart of the scholarly activity of the >> society; it could be THE way for us to work together so as to bring >> the annotation of The Cantos up to speed. >> >> There are almost 30 years of scholarship not included in Terrell's >> Companion. >> >> New Directions allows us to present six cantos on the website at any >> one time. This is why TCP cannot be a digital edition of the poem, >> however much we may regret this fact. (As an aside, Robert Spoo >> remarked that we can apply Pound's economics to TCP: if your money is >> scarce you can increase the velocity of circulation. Six cantos can >> seem a lot, when the rhythm of publishing and hiding them is quick. I >> found this a wonderful idea. Once the Cantos are annotated they can be >> hidden and republished as often and as fast as we need.) >> >> TCP can be our building site. We can make it our scholars' resource, >> our aid in research and teaching. Even at square one, as you will see >> when you look at it, the bibliographies are in place throughout the >> poem, at homepage and cycle page levels. A student, say, who wants to >> see relevant books or articles about a section of The Cantos or even >> individual poems can use TCP even now. The book bibliography is >> complete, as far as I know. The journal articles biblio is very >> comprehensive and will continuously be updated. What I still have to >> put in are chapters and book sections - but I will do that in the next >> six months. What we want is to make TCP our ultimate reference, the >> place to go. The scholarly apparatus is OURS and remains so. >> >> What we can do: we can initiate a work stream whereby six cantos are >> "live" at any given time. This means they will be online and the >> annotation will be under construction. You don't need to be a >> technological wizard to contribute: if working conventionally is >> easier, that is possible - just drop me an email to discuss what suits >> you best. When annotation is finished, the glosses will be transferred >> to an online illustrated Companion, which will be a downloadable pdf, >> one for every canto. Then the cantos will be "unpublished" to make >> space for the next ones. This means that they are not deleted and the >> annotation is not taken away from them. They are just hidden from view. >> >> I have uploaded six cantos on the site, from Ur-Canto I to Canto III. >> Canto I is minimally annotated so you can see an example. In order to >> preserve the integrity of the text and not spoil the magic, the >> annotation is hidden. By hovering with your mouse over an underlined >> word, you will bring up an electronic card with the gloss. Move the >> mouse away and the card disappears. >> The system offers us the possibility of having longer glosses as well, >> which we can add by the "create article" function. >> See the guidelines for contributors on the site. >> >> Terrell's Companion bears his name on the cover yet The Companion >> would not have been possible without his friends and collaborators. >> Hugh Kenner, Eva Hesse, Robert Gordon, to mention just the best-known >> names, contributed massively to all aspects of its creation. Terrell >> also used the accumulated knowledge stored in Paideuma. But he had >> seven years of Paideuma behind him when he started. We now have forty >> years. >> >> It is time we begin. >> >> Happy birthday Ezra. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.