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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C0AFEC.F2A7CDC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pat: Chapter 8 of your book does indeed discuss Dante's animals and I should = have acknowledged it. I like your ascription of the three moral faults = to the three men individually. It gives an entirely new way of reading = the poem. The three men/lusts could be used to montage into a single = Poundian Image. BTW on a subject the list has abandoned. I came across the anecdote = about the Conrad Aiken review of TWL; "An Anatomy of Melancholy" = yesterday. It is part of a prefatory note that Aiken wrote for the = inclusion of the review in Allen Tate's 1966 book "T.S. Eliot, The Man = and His Work". The anecdote is on pages 195 and 196. At the end of the = anecdote Aiken makes an interesting and tantalizingly vague statement: = "such passages as 'A woman drew her long black hair out tight' , which I = had seen as poems, or part-poems, in themselves!". Several questions = come immediately to mind. What other passages? What poems and = part-poems? Where are these forerunners to TWL? Who else saw and heard = these poems and part-poems? The famous notebook that has become the = facsimile was evidently not all that TSE toted in his famously large = suitcase to Lake Leman. Does anyone know if Aiken has ever enlarged = upon this statement? Rick Seddon McIntosh, NM, USA=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C0AFEC.F2A7CDC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Pat:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Chapter 8 of your book does indeed = discuss=20 Dante's animals and I should have acknowledged it. I like your = ascription=20 of the three moral faults to the three men individually. It gives = an=20 entirely new way of reading the poem. The three men/lusts =20 could be used to montage into a single Poundian = Image.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>BTW on a subject the list has = abandoned. I=20 came across the anecdote about the Conrad Aiken review of TWL; "An = Anatomy=20 of Melancholy" yesterday. It is part of a prefatory note that = Aiken=20 wrote for the inclusion of the review in Allen Tate's 1966 book = "T.S.=20 Eliot, The Man and His Work". The anecdote is on pages 195 = and=20 196. At the end of the anecdote Aiken makes an interesting and=20 tantalizingly vague statement: "such passages as 'A woman drew her = long=20 black hair out tight' , which I had seen as poems, or part-poems, in=20 themselves!". Several questions come immediately to = mind. =20 What other passages? What poems and part-poems? Where are = these=20 forerunners to TWL? Who else saw and heard these poems and=20 part-poems? The famous notebook that has become the facsimile was=20 evidently not all that TSE toted in his famously large suitcase to Lake=20 Leman. Does anyone know if Aiken has ever enlarged upon this=20 statement?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Rick Seddon</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>McIntosh, NM,=20 USA </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C0AFEC.F2A7CDC0--