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“... his personal conduct endearing others demur. He was in many respects a mess, a creator of chaos. Ezra Pound, who liked and admired him, once said ‘that if he were placed naked and alone in a room without furniture, I would come back in an hour and find total confusion.’ Though on the whole he seems to have enjoyed his life, his health was not good ...”

“... would he go to the disfiguring bother of writing, publishing and reprinting his ugly references to Ezra Pound (‘the pathos of the loony, traitorous, filthslinging poet in his cage at Pisa or in his ward in the Washington asylum’), to ‘restricted and jejune Eliot’ – Over the Missouri, over the Seine,   Over the Thames, and over the Severn, The ...”

“... than add bulk, it also makes crucial corrections. Consider one example, an important letter from Ezra Pound that makes extensive comments on a quasi-final version of The Waste Land, and is dated ‘24 Saturnus’, invoking a playful calendar he had invented for the new era marked by the completion of Joyce’s Ulysses. In 1950, D.D. Paige, the editor of ...”

“... boisterous seeming will, with any luck, change the nature of being.Stevens was a little older than Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, and died before they did; but his poems consistently read as if they were written a generation later. There must be many rather complicated reasons for this, including many reasons I don’t know. But two reasons are clear and very ...”

“... and immediacy; I have not the poet’s need of concreteness.’ The same could be said for Ezra Pound, on whom Davie has written so effectively, and who shares the same capacity for writing ‘clean’ poetry, poetry that is sculptured rather than organic, impersonal rather than wholly expressive of itself. Larkin said that a poem is like an ...”

“... then, Pos, you remember. It was the conventional sneer. Especially if a man was writing to Ezra Pound. I repudiated all this in later life. Hell, I even called my own son Gregory ‘Jew’ when he began to do arithmetic too young (he was a mathematical genius at age four). It was all jocular. You will note my friendship with Bernard Berenson who ...”

“... possessed artistic conscience in the highest degree. One might say the same of his fellow-American Ezra Pound; and it is no surprise that Pound modelled himself on Whistler (once having himself photographed in the pose of Whistler’s ‘Carlyle’), or that he drew so much encouragement from him. In 1912 he wrote to ...”

“... of F.G. Lorca from library (rather disappointing). – Picked up Humphrey Carpenter’s Ezra Pound: A Serious Character unexpectedly. – Dull TV. Sunday 13: – Had made apricot mousse to follow lamb for lunch. Vin de Pays du Gard. – Napped after lunch – News increasingly sombre. – Made successful piperade for supper. – Joely ...”

“... possessions), there is to be the imaginative activity that is alive only as verb. At least since Ezra Pound, this has been a lure for poets, a thrill and a delusion. For as Heaney’s last line acknowledges, ‘verb’ is indissolubly a noun. And the word which matters most is ‘trust’.When we come to close this book which opened with ...”

“... which he once lectured me on, over a proof, making reference, if I remember correctly, to Ezra Pound, Duke Ellington, Virginia Woolf, Picasso and Coco Chanel. A good editor’s interests can be as mysterious as a good writer’s style, and Silvers was always trying to work out if something was worth getting into. Colm Tóibín remembers going to ...”

“... based on the Psalms (he edited The Psalms in English for Penguin) which take their bearings from Pound’s Cantos (he also wrote two ground-breaking books on Pound and numerous essays on the Poundian tradition). Dorn’s homage is apposite, too: his poem is founded on the conviction that heretics have been persecuted ...”

“... from the last line of ‘A Dedication to My Wife’, should have remained so. In the preface that Ezra Pound composed for Valerie Eliot’s edition of the original manuscript of The Waste Land, Pound declared, in justification of the project, that ‘the more we know of Eliot, the better.’ Possibly aficionados of any ...”

“... Eliot’s ‘Conversation Galante’. Gumilev, the charismatic authority, had a little of the Ezra Pound about him, and as with Pound, his own reputation was eclipsed by the Modernists he championed. Gumilev’s protégé was Mandelstam, of whom he said: ‘I do not recall anyone else who has so completely ...”

“... among the most admired by writers and critics. It wasn’t just the usual modernist suspects like Pound, Williams, Stevens and Marianne Moore who sang his praises, but other, very different kinds of poet too: Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, Octavio Paz, Louis Zukofsky and Charles Olson. As did any number of critics: Edmund Wilson, Harry Levin, Jacques ...”

“... the cradle of modern capitalism or at least of materialism; hence the revulsion felt by Ruskin and Ezra Pound, for example, at much 16th-century Italian art. In the Introduction to his book Richard Goldthwaite writes that it is an ‘enlargement of Jacob Burckhardt’s classic – and much-debated – vision of Renaissance Italy as the birthplace of the ...”