Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EZRA POUND (493 pp.)-Charles Norman-Mocm/7/on...
...Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role...
...Norman (The Magic-Maker: e. e. cummings) has not done it. His book is a triumph of industry and a signal display of disorganization, a patchwork-letters, reminiscences, vignettes-of incoherent research. Apart from a few candid shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound's reputation, largely self-besmirched, has fallen so low that it has indeed no place...
...Young Pound developed a lasting eruditer-than-thou attitude, but he also had a large, unmanageable streak of naivete that would derange his life. As a French and Spanish instructor at Wabash College in 1907, he went out late one night and ran into a stranded burlesque girl, hungry and shivering in the winter streets. He fed her, brought her back to his rented room. and let her sleep in his bed while he slept on the floor. When his landladies, two spinster sisters, found out about it, Pound was fired. This episode triggered his departure for London via Venice...
...London. Pound headed for the salons in his "stage poet" mask - green billiard-cloth trousers, pink coat, blue shirt, an immense sombrero, a Mephistophelean red-blond beard and a single turquoise earring. An even better attention-getting device was Personae, published in 1909, in which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound...