In Terrell's A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Terrell says of Pound on page vii, "He would use as models only the best work of the greatest masters [Homer, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Browning] or of minor poets whose discoveries had advanced the art [Sappho, Ovid, Catullus, Propertius, the Provencal poets, Waller, Laforgue, et al.]." However, Pound consistently refered to Ovid as a major poet and seems to me to have regarded him as a greater poet than Browning, whom he did not tend to rank with Shakespeare, Dante, etc. (Pound did, on the other hand, devote more space to Browning than to any other poet in Confucius to cummings.) I love Terrell's book, but he seems to me to misrepresent Pound's views here.