Ezra Pound and Evil
Jerome McGann, 7 July 1988
The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism and the Myths of Ezra Pound
by Robert Casillo.
Northwestern, 463 pp., $34.95, April 1988,0 8101 0710 4 Show More
by Robert Casillo.
Northwestern, 463 pp., $34.95, April 1988,
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Faber, 1005 pp., £20, May 1988,0 571 14786 0 Show More
by Humphrey Carpenter.
Faber, 1005 pp., £20, May 1988,
“... of his life’s work, inextricable from his larger concerns about history, culture and economics. Robert Casillo is therefore entirely correct to say that Pound’s writing raises ‘the problem of evil in literature’ in an especially clear way. ‘For it must be emphasised that Pound’s anti-semitism is quite different from Dostoyevsky’s and ... ”
