Tarr (Oxford World's Classics) (61 page)

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For more complete discussions of the differences between the various editions and their editorial histories, see
Tarr: The 1918 Version
, ed. Paul O’Keeffe (Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990), and Stephen Sturgeon, ‘Wyndham Lewis’s
Tarr
: A Critical Edition’, unpublished PhD diss., Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2007.

⁷
The Enemy
2 (1929), p. ix.

¹
Rude Assignment: An Intellectual Autobiography
, ed. Toby Foshay (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984), 162.

²
The poet and artist Sturge Moore (1870–1944) had written to Lewis, ‘I rather regret the preface and epilogue: they will distract reflection from the book itself to the doctrine it will be supposed to illustrate … they are like a rope anchoring it to Pound’s Little World, whereas it might sail the blue quite unattached with advantage’ (
The Letters of Wyndham Lewis
, ed. W. K. Rose (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1963), Sept. 1918, p. 99). In his review of
Tarr
for the
Little Review
Pound noted a similar stricture, writing that in comparison to Kreisler, ‘Tarr is less clearly detached from his creator. The author has evidently suspected this, for he has felt the need of disclaiming Tarr in a preface’ (
Little Review
(1918); repr. in
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
(New York: New Directions Books, 1968), 425).