But whats all this to us? The modern world ……… !”
  Here is your modern world, and I’m no Stendhal :
  “Napoleon lands from Elba, north upon Lake Come
  An ignorant boy sets out … how wild the fire ran,
  Fabrice, falls upon Waterloo, Chartreuse de Parme,
  the first eleven chapters.

    — EP, Canto IV mss., 1915

A study of the composition of The Cantos by its unpublished manuscripts, particularly that of Canto IV, the first completed. With interesting diagrams of variorum. First edition. A fine copy save one small tear to the jacket. Annotated throughout by David Moody.