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On 22 January 1913, Punch ran a skit on contemporary American poets; in amongst a gaggle of sneers at colourful, now mainly forgotten names — RAPHAEL PUMPELLY, VOLNEY STREAMER, JOHN KENDRICK BANGS — there appears the following couplet:
The bays that formerly old DANTE crowned Are worn today by EZRA LOOMIS POUND.2
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Reynolds, M. (1998). Ezra Pound: Quotation and Community. In: Havely, N. (eds) Dante’s Modern Afterlife. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26975-4_8
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