No poet sought acknowledgment more enthusiastically than Ezra Pound. No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either. Pound was the impresario of Modernism. He stripped the Victorian ...

Day-Lewis. Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention, though both in recent years have fallen under the ...

“I think of a friend who, in the early days, was as much concerned with the encouragement and improvement of the work of unknown writers in whom he discerned talent, as with his own creative ...