Volume 36, Number 17 · November 9, 1989
Putting Pound Together
By Harry Levin
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
by Humphrey Carpenter
Houghton Mifflin, 1,005 pp., $40.00
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano
by John Tytell
Doubleday/Anchor, 368 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The American Ezra Pound
by Wendy Stallard Flory
Yale University Press, 246 pp., $25.00
The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound
by Robert Casillo
Northwestern University Press, 463 pp., $34.95
Pound/The Little Review: The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson
edited by Thomas L. Scott, edited by Melvin J. Friedman, edited by Jackson R. Bryer
New Directions, 368 pp., $37.50
Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship, 1910–1912
edited by Omar Pound, edited by Robert Spoo
Duke University Press, 181 pp., $25.95
Four years after his centenary, half a generation after his death, the emphatic presence of Ezra Pound is being sustained and even enhanced in those academic circles which—with characteristic ambivalence—he had both sought and flouted throughout his long life. His schoolmates had nicknamed him 'professor'; the only full-time job he ever held, four months as an instructor at a small midwestern college, had expired in a mild scandal, to be variously recalled. Yet he functioned most successfully as a pedagogue: 'first and foremost a teacher and a campaigner,' in the testimonial of his sometime protégé T.S. Eliot. Through a series of one-to-one relations, many of which broadened into literary movements, he earned his own peculiar title, 'the Ezuversity.'
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