Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos: "They are one of the
touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound]
discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it--in the words; fuses it
with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos. Make them."
Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as
well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now
appearing for the first time is Pound's recently found Eglish
translation of Italian Canto LXXII.