>any detailed reading of Pounds poem 'Plotinus' around? I give a fairly detailed reading of it in my Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult (Cornell 1995), pp. 32-33, which discusses the source of the vortex image in "Yogi Ramacharaka" (William Walker Atkinson). Timothy Materer, 228 Tate, English Department University of Missouri, Columbia MO 65211 Fax: 573 882-5785 http://www.missouri.edu/~engtim