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...PATRIA MIA - A DISCUSSION OF THE ARTS, THEIR USE AND FUTURE IN AMERICA (97 pp.)-Ezra Pound-Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago...
...more notable young lions in the literary jungles of London and Paris, sent a manuscript to a Chicago publisher. In the somewhat hectic conditions prevailing for small, avant-garde publishing firms, the manuscript was lost. Not until this year was Ezra Pound's essay Patria Mia accidentally recovered-in a dusty package which had been supposed to contain only old bills. Thirty-seven years behind schedule, the publisher dutifully sent the work to the printers...
American criticism would have suffered no major loss if this essay had forever remained in limbo, but Patria Mia does provide, along with a lot of Pound-foolishness, a cupful of penny-wiseness, winning freshness, a few flashes of brilliance, and some early glimpses of a talented, disorderly mind that was to approach genius before it sank into insanity...
Whitman Abroad. Patria Mia does not sound as if it had been written, but as if it had been talked-between the hours of 2 and 4 a.m.. in a Bloomsbury attic. As with most such nocturnal monologues, which always seem dazzling in the dark, a lot of Pound's dicta could not survive the dawn; but some would stand up at high noon, e.g., his tribute to Walt Whitman: "One may not need him at home. It is in the air, this tonic of his. But if one is abroad; if one is ever likely to forget...
...Allow me to express my astonishment at seeing in theaters and other places marble tablets and bronze plates immortalizing Finnish soldiers and officers fallen in wars against Soviet Russia. These memorials are inscribed 'Pro Patria.' This is contrary to the truth...