Where was it that Pound had referred to Pindar as "the prize windbag of antiquity"? Tim Romano Jonathan Morse wrote: [...] > 9. Nevertheless, sursum corda. The text of Pound's own diagnosis is badly > garbled in the old Paige _Selected Letters_ (no. 328, p. 295), but some > meaning does come through the static. "A man can read a thousand or 5000 or > whatever books," says Pound, "but to suppose that they will be the _same_ > 1000 or 5000 after new treasure is available than there were in 1500 is to > relapse into habit." Pound is talking here about the classics; specifically > Pindar, whom he considers no longer worth reading. Substitute the name > "Kenner" and interesting possibilities arise.