Volume 28, Number 7 · April 30, 1981

The Eyes of Ez

By Lincoln Kirstein
Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
edited with an introduction by Harriet Zinnes

New Directions, 322 pp., $25.95

Ezra Pound and His World
by Peter Ackroyd

Scribner's, 127 pp., $12.95

From adolescence to about 1934, Ezra Pound had considerable curiosity about plastic art, parallel to his curiosity about music. His verse, prime reliquary of his genius, is compact with vivid visual imagery:



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