Poet Ezra Pound, released in April from a mental institution, gives a Fascist-style salute on his arrival in Naples, Italy. He was accused of treason for broadcasts made in Italy during World War II ...
The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound, by Daniel Swift, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages Ezra Pound is a litmus test as much as he is a poet. His cartoonish ...
Ezra Pound, a pivotal 20th-century writer, significantly shaped modernist literature as a poet, critic, and editor. He championed emerging talents like T.S. Eliot and James Joyce, and pioneered ...
CRYPTIC AND CONTRARY: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) has long fascinated literary critics, baffled literature students, and appalled opponents of his pro-fascist radio broadcasts. The poet was indicted for ...
Robert D. Kaplan’s “Adriatic” takes readers on a political, intellectual and personal tour from Italy to Albania. By Thomas F. Madden A poet who was undone by his own words. By R. O. Blechman “Only ...
Percy Shelley called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” No poet sought acknowledgment more enthusiastically than Ezra Pound. No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either ...
In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...
In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...
`Pound is an incredible ass,” Robert Frost wrote after meeting him in England in 1913. Like other American writers before and since, feeling unappreciated at home, they had gone abroad to make their ...