Bibliography of Witnesses Collated: Canto IV

Presumed Setting Copies

• The Fourth Canto. London; The Ovid Press, 1919. Typescript, corrected in Pound’s hand. Beinecke Library (Pound Papers — uncatalogued Black Box), Yale University.
• A Draft of XXX Cantos. Page proofs corrected in Pound’s hand of A Draft of XVI Cantos for the Beginning of a Poem of Some Length. Paris; Three Mountains Press, 1925 / A Draft of the Cantos 17-27. London; John Rodker, 1928. Beinecke Library Library (Pound Papers — uncatalogued Black Box), Yale University. Lines 1-70 (pp. 33-34) of XXIII missing / “Cantos XXVII, XXIX, XXX” Hound & Horn, III. 3 (April/June 1930) 358-[375]. Page proofs and corrected typescripts in Pound’s hand. Beinecke Library (Pound Papers), Yale University.

Page Proofs

• The Fourth Canto. London; The Ovid Press, 1919. Privately printed, 1919. Corrections in Pound’s hand. Beinecke Library (Pound Papers), Yale University.
• A Draft of XVI Cantos for the Beginning of a Poem of Some Length. Paris, Three Mountains Press, 1925. Bound copy, uncorrected. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
• A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris; Hours Press, 1930. Uncorrected. Harry Ransom Centre, University of Texas at Austin.

Published Versions

• The Fourth Canto. London; The Ovid Press, 1919. Privately printed, 1919.
• Dial, LXVIII. 6 (June 1920), [689]-692.
• Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos. New York; Boni & Liveright, 1921.
• A Draft of XVI Cantos for the Beginning of a Poem of Some Length. Paris; Three Mountains Press, 1925.
• A Draft of XXX Cantos. Paris; Hours Press, 1930.
• A Draft of XXX Cantos. New York; Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Rpt. [No Date]. New York; New Directions, [1940]. Rpt 1990.
• A Draft of XXX Cantos. London; Faber & Faber, 1933. Rpt. 1943, 1997.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1948. Rpt. 1951 [1952], 1956, 1958, 1960, 1964.
• Selected Poems. New York; New Directions, 1949. Rpt. 1950.
• Seventy Cantos. London; Faber & Faber, 1950.
• Dichtung und Prosa, ed. Eva Hesse. Zürich; Verlag der Arche, [1953]. Frankfurt am Main; Ullstein Bücher, 1956.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. London; Faber & Faber, [1954]. Rpt. 1957.
• Selected Poems. New York; New Directions, 1957. Rpt. 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974.
• Ezra Pound Reading His Poetry, 2 cassettes. New York; Caedmon Publishers, 1959. Rpt. 1960, 1993.
• I Cantos, Volume Primo, I Primi Trenta, ed. Mary de Rachewiltz. Milano; Lerici–Scheiwiller Editori, 1961. Rpt. 1962.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. London; Faber & Faber, 1964. Rpt. 1968.
• Cantos I-XXX (A Draft of XXX Cantos), ed. Eva Hesse. Zürich; Verlag der Arche, 1964.
• The Cantos (1-95). New York; New Directions, 1965. Rpt. 1966.
• Selected Cantos. London; Faber & Faber, 1967. Rpt. 1969, 1974.
• Selected Cantos. New York; New Directions, 1970. Rpt. 1971, 1972.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1970. Rpt. 1971.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1972. Rpt. 1973.
• Cantos Schelti, ed. Mary de Rachewiltz. Milano; Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1973.
• Selected Cantos. New York; New Directions, 1973. Rpt. 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1975. Rpt. 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983.
• Selected Poems 1908-1959. London; Faber & Faber, 1975.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. London; Faber & Faber, 1975 [1976].
• Selected Poems. New York; New Directions, 1976. Rpt. 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986.
• Selected Poems. London; Faber & Faber, 1977.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. London; Faber & Faber, 1981.
• Ezra Pound, I Cantos, ed. Mary de Rachewiltz. Milano; Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1985.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1986.
• Selected Cantos. London; Faber & Faber, 1987.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1989.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. London; Faber & Faber, 1989.
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York; New Directions, 1996.