Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto LXIII

This entry is part 49 of 57 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one (or a few) at a time. The readings are atypical, for reasons made clear in my first post in this series. I’m not sure whether the fiction project that inspired this series will ever come to fruition, but I’d like to try finish the Cantos just the same. There’s also an (updated) index of all the Cantos (and related sources) I’ve discussed so far. In this installment, I try to figure out what we can say about Canto LXIII, the second of the …

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Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto LXII

This entry is part 48 of 57 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one (or a few) at a time. The readings are atypical, for reasons made clear in my first post in this series. I’m not sure whether the fiction project that inspired this series will ever come to fruition, but I’d like to try finish the Cantos just the same. There’s also an index of all the Cantos (and related sources) I’ve discussed so far. In this installment, I dig into Canto LXII, the first of the ten Adams Cantos, while touching on Merrymount and …

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