Volume 31, Number 15 · October 11, 1984
The Waste Land Without Pound
By Louis S. Auchincloss
At a lunch recently for the advisory committee of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, I told Lola Szladits, curator of the Berg Collection in the New York Public Library, that I had a heresy to confess. I impenitently clung to the opinion that Ezra Pound might have done a disservice to T.S. Eliot when he excised certain passages from The Waste Land. Since Ms. Szladits had an important part in publishing these deleted sections in Valerie Eliot's 1971 edition of her husband's manuscripts, I had assumed that she shared the prevailing academic view that Pound's maieutic hand had been a happy one. To my surprise I discovered that she agreed with me.
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