Word: sordello
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Premier MacDonald's very vague speech on the results of his mission Colonel Wedgwood remarked: "It reminded me gentlemen, of Robert Browning's Sordello, a poem which contained only two intelligible lines, the first and the last...
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...Robert Browning's most obscure poem, Sordello, it was said that only one person understood it-the author-and that later even he forgot what it all meant. Whether or not the Cantos have a "meaning," Author Pound seems to realize that his readers may have the same difficulty...