At 07:38 AM 9/10/99 -1000, Richard Edwards wrote: > Geoffrey Hill's strange new >book-length poem, *The Triumph of Love* (Houghton Mifflin 1998/Penguin >1999), contains the following lines in section (canto?) CXLVI: > >"Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark: >Mosaic statute, to which Ruskin was steadfast. >(If Pound had stood so, he might not have foundered.)" > >Does anyone have any idea what Hill is getting at here? I think Hill doesn't know what he's talking about. Pound would never remove his neighbour's mark, and never did - he had an enormous respect for history and all developments in literature (although more for some than for others), and I don't think that ever changed. Pound's foundering consisted of a stupid, blind anti-Semitism combined with a life of too much isolation. Hill's comment is just a cold blast of hot air aimed at nothing but making a literary reference. Arwin