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A Lume Spento

 * ... that Ezra Pound (pictured) considered dumping his first poetry collection, A Lume Spento, into a Venetian canal?
 * Reviewed: Experimenting with Babies

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Self nominated at 09:34, 19 February 2014 (UTC).

The gloss on the title had been overly obtuse, given that lume is simply Italian for light or a lamp. Using "taper" is not only more obscure, it obscures the imagery that his friend's life is itself an extinguished light. Fixed, with source. [Apparently, it's Pound's preferred translation. Since that has to appear, we don't really need two, even if his is worse. Also cited now, so that's better.] Similarly, the article originally flubbed the actual scene occurring in the Purgatory: he's not talking about his actual funeral procession but the exhumation and removal of his bones following his excommunication. Fixed, with source. Apart from that, it's G2G, though I'd suggest adding " ... the self-published A Lume ... " since it makes the scene clearer. — Llywelyn II   16:05, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Article lacks inline citation for the DYK fact, which is given in a photo caption. Someone not using his real name (talk) 00:58, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Pound's writing is cited, next to the caption, and its content is pretty clear to me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It seems like WP:OR based on your interpretation of the not-so-clear-to-me poem. Can you find a wp:secondary source to say that, in (more obvious) prose? Someone not using his real name (talk) 04:58, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 1, 2, among others. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:59, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, maybe you should one of those as inline citation then. Someone not using his real name (talk) 17:51, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 is already the citation for the poem... but added some (IMHO redundant) text which is footnoted and explicit... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:01, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg It not only wasn't redundant, that direct link should be provided on the page so that it's clear that it isn't just lit. crit. At first, I thought both that you'd mistranscribed the poem and&mdash;from the title of the work&mdash;were simply linking to the text itself. [edit: Since it's among the notes, having added the editor's name helps. Still wish there were an easy way to link to the direct page from the formatting you're using.]