Pound's reading of occult literature around 1905 is extensively
studied in Tryphonopoulos: The celestial tradition, 1992.
 
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> I'd be interested if there is any detailed reading of Pounds poem
> 'Plotinus' around. He obviously wrote it in 1905 and published it in 'A
> Lume Spento' and as far as I know it is the first occasionn, where he uses
> the word 'vortex'. Does anyone know, what kind of literature he
> was reading
> at the time he wrote the poem?
 
> Antje Pfannkuchen
>
  Hideo Nogami
  studying Ezra Pound nonprofessionally in Japan
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