Barry Ahearn - Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision : Science in Modernist American Poetry

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editor of theTennyson Research Bulletinfor permission to republish a portion of Tennyson and Babbage,Tennyson Research Bulletin10:1 (2012), 5365.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to New Directions Publishing Corporation for permission to republish material from the following works by Ezra Pound.

Personae, 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

The Cantos of Ezra Pound, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, and 1971 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Gaudier-Brzeska, 1970 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Collected Early Poems, 1926, 1935, 1954, 1965, 1967, 1976 by The Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

ABC of Reading, 1934 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Selected Prose 19091965, 1973 by The Estate of Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Unpublished drafts ofThe Cantos, 2019 by Mary de Rachewiltz and the Estate of Omar Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Every reasonable effort has been made to secure permission from the estate of Marianne Moore.

Acquainted with the Night, West-Running Brook, A Roadside Stand, On the Hearts Beginning to Cloud the Mind, At Woodwards Garden, Desert Places, On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base, Build Soil, A Missive Missile, A Considerable Speck, and In Winter in the Woods Alone by Robert Frost. From the bookThe Poetry of Robert Frostedited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1934, 1936, 1942, 1956, 1962 by Robert Frost. Copyright 1964, 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company. All rights reserved.

For their assistance I would like to thank the librarians and staff of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and Elizabeth E. Fuller, librarian at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia.

I wish to thank John Gery, Donald Pizer, and Zhaoming Qian for reading portions of the manuscript. I also wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their advice on improvements. Finally, my most heartfelt thanks to my wife, Pamela, who has had the grace to put up with this project for far too long.