Monday, April 21, 2025

 

An Ingenious Excuse

Donald Davie (1922-1995), Ezra Pound (New York: The Viking Press, 1976), p. 60 (on Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius):
But Pound, for good measure, deliberately planted ludicrous howlers, to amuse those who knew the Latin or chose to consult it.
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