Volume 23, Number 9 · May 27, 1976
Love, Hate, and Ezra Pound
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Ezra Pound
by Donald Davie
Viking (Modern Masters Series), 111 pp., $2.50 (paper)
It is still hard for us to judge Ezra Pound's achievement as a poet. His example has influenced so many successors, he has written so much about the arts and society, that we have trouble fixing our attention on the poems alone. Donald Davie, in a new book on Pound, tries to make the poetry his paramount business. I suppose that is why he hews to the common line of respecting his subject's privacy, and puts careful limits on the use of biographical data.
Review, 4966 words
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