...European literature. " I am interested in poetry," he writes in his Prafatio ad Lector em Electum. " I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements...mediaeval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, as I believe, still potent in our own." The intellectual perversity of Ezra Pound has disgusted many...

...begins, in a high-sounding Praefatio ad lectorem electum which intermingles diffidence with arrogance. "Only by courtesy can it be said to be a study in comparative literature." And on the next page, more specifically, he announces: "What we need is a literary scholarship which...

...I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the medieval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, I believe, still potent in our own. . . . I have floundered somewhat ineffectually through the slough of philology, but I look forward...

...in European literature. 'I am interested in poetry,' he writes in his Prxfatio adLectorem Electum. 'I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements...mediaeval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, as I believe, still potent in our own.' The intellectual perversity of Ezra Pound has disgusted many...

...Literature of Latin Europe. Its 'Praefatio ad Lectorem Electum' announces of The Spirit of Romance that 'Only by courtesy can it be said to be a study in comparative literature', yet those words 'study' and 'comparative literature' carry the freight of US academia. Pound has his...

...Pound identifies his motivation for bringing together various texts from various vernacular traditions: I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the medieval literature of the Latin tongues, and are I believe, still potent in our own. (1968: 9) By...