This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the questions they have asked.
Forty-five years after his death, and more than seventy years after his indictment for treason, Ezra Pound remains a deeply controversial figure. Today it is hard to imagine a poet sparking national debate, but Pound did just that. His receipt in 1949 of the first-ever...