"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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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.