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Ezra Pound worried his high art had become “arsthitic”. Is this a misspelling? I can not find a definition of "arsthitic".

• becquerel 2y ago
  Probably a Poundism for arse and aesthetic?
• robocat 2y ago
  Mentioned in another article: the 'arsthitic' tendency of Ulysses, as Pound called it, suggesting in his pun that Joyce's artistic integrity was being compromised by his attention to lower matters.