Electra-- The "history" of the text of _the Cantos_ is labyrinthine for both mechanical and political reasons. <snip> I think there should be some words explaining the change <snip> Indeed, the problem is that many of the changes to the text have been quirky, even arbitrary. The definitive study is by Barbara Eastman _Ezra Pound's Cantos: The Story of the Text 1948-1975_. Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1979. Jon Ausubel