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Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance3Ch. 1Pound's Gradus ad Parnassum30Ch. 2Pound's Gradus a Parnasso: Misanthropy, Pound, and Some French Satire58Ch. 3The Citadel of the Intelligent: Pound's Laforgue91Ch. 4The Wobbling Pivot: Surface and Depth in the Early Cantos131Ch. 5L'Eternelle Ritournelle in the Late Cantos166Conclusion: Robert Duncan's Revisionary Ratios: Rewriting The Spirit of Romance194Notes211Index255