CANTO XXXIX – Sources

“Middle English Lyrics: Alisoun.” Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature. Free online.

Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso. Cantos XXIII: l.129 and XXX: l.62. Digital Dante. 

Bérard, Victor. Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée. 2 vols. Paris: Armand Colin, 1902–3. Vol. 1, 1902. Internet Archive. Vol. 2, 1903. Internet Archive. 

Catullus. “XXXIV.” Carmina. Ed. Bernhard Schmidt. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1887. Internet Archive. Wikisource.

Homer. Homeri opera omnia: ex recensione et cum notis Samuelis Clarkii, S.T.P. Accessit varietas lectionum ms. lips. et edd. veterum, cura Jo. Augusti Ernesti: qui et suas notas adspersit. 5 vols. Glasgow: Andrew Duncan and London: Richard Priestley 1814. [Greek text with Latin footnotes]. Vol. 1-2 The Iliad; Vol. 2-4 The Odyssey. Book X (K) vol. 3: 417-65. Hathi Trust.

Ibycus. [Fragment.] Lyra Graeca. Being the Remains of all the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus Excepting Pindar. Ed. J. M. Edmonds. 3 vols. London: Heinemann 1922. Vol. II: 84-5. Internet Archive.

Ovid. Metamorphoseon. Ed. A. Richter. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1828.  

Pound, Ezra. “Credo.” Front 1.1 (December 1930): 11. Republished in SP 53; and P&P V: 253.

“Pervigilium Veneris.” In Justus Lipsi Electorum. Liber primus. Antwerp: Apud Christophorum Plantinum, 1585. Google Books.

Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Aeneid Book VI: l.268. Perseus.

Setting copy for the American edition, October 1934 - YCAL 43, Series IV: 73/3284.

Further drafts at Beinecke Library, Ezra Pound Papers, YCAL 43:

73/3273 - carbon typescript of 39. Heavily corrected draft. Autograph insertions of Greek in pencil. Notes in pencil. Contains the Hathor and Patha stories.

73/3274 - carbon typescripts of drafts for 39, including Hathor and Patha material.

73/3275 - notes in pencil.

73/3276 - first original typescript of canto with plentiful corrections. Draft very different from what canto 39 eventually became.

73/3277 - several carbons of final draft with Greek insertions in red ink.

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