Hardy to Swinburne: Cf. notes GK 284, 131, respectively.

my great uncle Albert: Albert E. Pound (b. 1831), brother of Thaddeus C. Pound (1832–1914), Ezra Pound's grandfather. Albert Pound is described in the Wisconsin volume of The United States Biographical Dictionary (1877) as a Republican elected to the State Legislature in 1871 and as a working member of the Wisconsin Assembly, “bold and outspoken, freely, fearlessly and fully expressing his views on any question under consideration.”1 He makes a brief appearance as “Al” in Canto 114, amidst remembered fragments of old family conversations (114/812).

Only Rudyard Kipling … courageous ingenuity: The sentence was redacted from the original version in the unexpurgated GK,

(cf. note GK 194)

Hardy … “That the greatest of things is Charity”: A reference to Hardy's poem “Surview,” whose epigraph is a Latin tag from Psalm 119:59, Cogitavi vias meas (“I thought on my ways”).

Browning had a revivalist spirit … [n.]? and Swinburne: Pound had illustrated this point several years earlier in a 1913 essay on the Troubadours published in the Quarterly Review, citing Browning and Dante as responsible for creating “so much interest in Sordello” (cf. note GK 107–108). Pound credits Swinburne with reviving “the conception of poetry as a ‘pure art’” (cf. note GK 131).

we believed in the individual case: This sentiment fundamentally informed Vorticism, as expressed in the movement's magazine in 1914, “Blast presents an art of Individuals” (cf. note GK 63).

“new synthesis”: Cf. note GK 95. Crime Club: A special imprint of the publishing firms William Collins in Britain and Doubleday in the U.S., specializing in detective and mystery fiction.