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Friday, April 24, 2015
Gilbert Highet's Homage to Ezra Pound
Gilbert Highet, "Homage to Ezra Pound," in Robert P. Falk, ed., American Literature in Parody (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1955), pp. 204-206: