Pound's reading of occult literature around 1905 is extensively studied in Tryphonopoulos: The celestial tradition, 1992. > -----Original Message----- > 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 [log in to unmask]