First of all, it's interesting to see how everyone else has become interested in Pound. I was introduced to his work in a graduate seminar titled Modernist Poets in Conversation, which focused on the pairs Pound-Eliot and Stevens-Moore and the artistic exchange between the poets. I took the course because I was interested in Eliot and Stevens, having never read Pound or Moore, but after reading some of _Spirit of Romance_ (the Whitman-watermelon part) I was hooked, and began to wonder why Pound isn't taught or read more. In my previous experience, he wasn't even so much dismissed as just plain absent. I am glad to see that their is a friendly Pound community out there though--despite my earlier remarks re: Pound and Pope. Erin Erin E. Templeton Pennsylvania State University Department of English [log in to unmask]