of Canto
Source: Webster's dictionaryAbout a year later, in January 1917, he had the first three trial cantos, distilled to one, as Canto I published in Poetry. Source: Internet
Cantos of Ezra Pound for the Beginning of a Poem of some Length now first made into a Book. Source: Internet
Citing Pound's first seven cantos, Wilson dubbed the writing "unsatisfactory". Source: Internet
He found The Cantos disjointed and its contents reflecting a too-obvious reliance on the literary works of other authors, and an awkward use of Latin and Chinese translations as a device inserted among reminiscences of Pound's own life. Source: Internet
During the meeting Pound tried to present Mussolini with a digest of his economic ideas, but Mussolini brushed them aside, though he called the Cantos "divertente" (entertaining). Source: Internet
He saw his work as worthless and The Cantos botched. Source: Internet