On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 07:53:00 +0100 wrote... >Robert, > >A] > Alex-- Thanks--actually, I was just looking to buy Doob's book, if I could get a copy. But I very well may order what the Library of Congress, or the National Archive has, if it is a more complete set. Thanks. *...and yes, daunting task to suggest only five critical works on Pound--and i thought about the ones you suggest. Donald Davie's Poet as Sculptor is one of my favorites, but it is old now. I love Bacigalupo, but in truth, many people find his work on the later cantos scattered. Besides, his criticism is more specific, as is Sullivan's. As a classicist, I most appreciate him and his angle in on Pound. But that I think is a special interest. Davenport's Cities on Hills is also a good book--I could have included it, but cut it. Really, just five books must leave out most of what is great. But as a doable package, i though not to exceed five. Cheers, Robert K. >did you mean ALL of the short wave things from Radio Rome? In a letter from Eva >Hesse and >her husband of 8/85 attached to my edition of Doob's selection I find this (I >try to translate as >accurately as possible): > >"The transcripts of 177 radio speeches in/with 468 pages (Oct 2 [....] - July >26 1943 have been >available as early as in 1945 from the Library of Congress and ldter from the >National Archives >Records Service, Washington, DC for $93,60. Leonard Doob (expert for >psychological warfare, >cf. his book, traveling for CIA) has edited the speeches on orders from Mary i. >e. the Pound Lit. >Prop. Trust in order to get hold of the copyright for the Trust, so that they >[the speeches] couldn't >furthermore be quoted or be reprinted by other authors free of charge. >"The more immediate reason [for Doob's publication] was the publication of >"Certain Radio >Speeches of Ezra Pound", ed. William Levy, Rotterdam, Cold Turkey Press 1975 >with the >beautiful copyright-note: "Copyright (c) 1975 for Ezra Pound, his heirs and >concubines." >"As can be proved Doob has suppressed at least 58 speeches, much likely in >order to influence >the results of his statistic analysis (pp 417-425)." > >But still, Robert (altho I think you know about this one!): the book in >question is, of course, >"Ezra Pound Speaking. Radio Speeches of World War II", Leonard Doob, ed.; >Greenwood 1978. > > >B] > >Don't you agree, Robert, that putting up such an "EP basic reading ideogram" as >you did - and >thanks, of course, but... - belongs to the most complicated tasks one cd >imagine? But it's Sunday >morning, I've got time today, and so here's my HUMBLE variation or call it >addenda to Robert's >list: > >1) J. P. Sullivan on "Ezra Pound's Sextus Propertius. A Study in Creative >Translation", 1964, > >2) J. J. Espey on "Pound's Mauberley. A Study in Composition", 1955, > >3) Guy Davenport's reworked doct. diss. "Cities on Hills" on Cantos I-XXX >(UMI, 1982) > >the above three as seperate studies of most important EP works & aspects, while >the following >cover a wider range of EP topics: > >4) Donald Davie's two studies "Poet as Sculptor" of 1964 and "Towards a >Pedestrian Reading" > of 1972, bth collected in Davie, "Studies in Ezra Pound. Chronicle and >Polemic", 1991, > >5) the "New Approaches to Ezra Pound", edited by Eva Hesse, 1969, and lastly >and maybe, say, > more for "intermediates onward > >6) Bacigalupo's "Formed Trace", 1980. > >OK. Honi soi qui mal y pense [or somesuch]. > >alex > > Robert E. Kibler Department of English University of Minnesota [log in to unmask] fortunatus et ille, deos qui novit agrestis, Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.