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Chapter one, "End Fact, Try Fiction: Post-Philology in Pound's Early Writing", explores Pound's early attempts to get beyond understandings of language that operated on philological models. The fourth chapter gives a detailed reconstruction, aided by a discerning use of archival materials from the Beinecke Library's Pound Papers, of Pound's correspondence with C. K. Ogden about the latter's Basic English project. Citing works such as Pound's 1906 essay "Raphaelite Latin" and "Provincialism and the Enemy", the four-part essay series Pound drafted for I The New Age i in July 1917, the chapter explains how Pound's "antagonistic stance" to leading ideas about language developed by philologists like William Dwight Whitney influenced his earliest publications (38). [Extracted from the article]