Answering Doug and Jody again ...

[jporter]

> From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
..
> 
> But I would point out the
> strong, to the point of intrusive, editorial effects of Ezra Pound on
> T.S. Eliot's meisterwerk (decidedly decentering any notion of "authorial
> intention" there), and would ask, just how explanatory are those
> footnotes, anyway?

But that was my point. They are neither explanatory nor revealing of
authorial intention beyond being part of the poem itself, i.e., in need of
interpretation themselves, rather than explaining what they are appended to.

>And cf. Samuel Beckett's seeming parody in his
> (though some would say ghostwritten by James Joyce) (first published, I
> believe, and written for a competition ... which he entered after the
> deadline, but won nonetheless) poem, "Whoroscope" ...
> 
I'll seek it out.