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THE CANTOS: the seatable Cantos are those printed before 1931. Three Cantos (Poetry, 1917) are seated here; Cantos IV–VII are in 05/02 (Poems 1918–21). A Draft of XVI Cantos (Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1925), A Draft of the Cantos 17–27 (London: John Rodker, 1928) and A Draft of XXX Cantos (Paris: Hours Press, 1930) are public domain in the United States, but no public-domain witness was reachable from the session: the Internet Archive holds only the 1990 New Directions reprint, lending-restricted; HathiTrust is not reachable from this workspace. QUEUED: the periodical first printings 1922–1930 (The Dial, The Criterion, The Transatlantic Review), located on the Internet Archive and not yet read for the Canto pages. Cantos XXXI onward are in copyright in the United States (Eleven New Cantos, 1934 → 2030) and are not seated.", "verified_loci": [ "Three Cantos I (Poetry, June 1917) — the opening address to Browning, 'Hang it all, there can be but one Sordello!' 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The Cavalcanti of 1912 is Pound's Italian source on the facing page, and The Spirit of Romance is his map of the Provençal and Italian lyric that card 18/02 seats in its own languages.", "spine": "Pound II", "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-15: \"we need more seatings of avant garde literature. dada. farce. oulipo. futurist. - whatevers in the public domain. originals is good on classics, impoverished on modern. and i want the italian troubadors. and pound, more pound. need the cantos.\" — \"and the concrete poets\" — \"also need jarry, schlovsky, etc\" — \"it gets an ea-corpora deposit and a spine and a card on tll, bulk seatings per ea-corpora deposit is fine\"." }