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“... dominant and subtle rhythm that owes its expressive freedom to a close reading of the work of Ezra Pound’. It may seem surprising that so bold a translator should be so angry at the modern versions of the Bible and the Prayer Book. One reason is, of course, his reverence for the established versions: but another is his sense, as a ...”

“... clasp one another in a range of expressive moves that the face may sustain or deny – see ancient Ezra Pound (1971), grim Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1944), coy Leonor Fini (1933), and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor sitting close together, their heads flirtatious, each using one hand to imprison the other (1951). Detachable props give hands even ...”

“... at the Festival of the Two Worlds in Spoleto in 1965, where they promenaded with an enfeebled Ezra Pound, and at the legendary Berkeley Poetry Conference the same year. His letters from this period are full of excitement – ‘some fag in heaven must be working for me’ – as he contemplates the Keats-Shelley memorial and vistas of international ...”

“... love-hate relationship with his mistress, ‘Odi et amo’. One of these sounds a bit like Ezra Pound in troubadour mode:I hate where I do love. PerchanceThou seek’st to know de quelle façon[Doffs hat, strums lute-strings].I don’t know. It’s hurting. Here.Another sounds like a resentful adolescent:Stuck in a hate-love trap.‘How does it ...”

“... jeered at the Republicans: ‘The sodomites are on your side;/The cowards and the cranks.’ Ezra Pound said the enemy wasn’t Franco, but big-time international finance: ‘You are all had. Spain is an emotional luxury to a gang of sap-headed dilettantes.’ Graham Greene hadn’t replied to the Left Review because he couldn’t make up his ...”

“... all this in and shaking it up with much Celtic folklore, mad uncle Robert then devoured half a pound of magic mushrooms and decided to give the dons something to think about. (Sober Apollonian Footnote: Graves seems not to have experimented with magic mushrooms until 1953, but before this date his mind might be said to have been capable of ...”

“... Prejudice, Irving Howe asks himself why he and his peer-group, who were ready enough to convict Ezra Pound of racialism, hesitated to attack Eliot in spite of his very crass and blatant attacks on ‘free-thinking Jews’. First, of course, there was the intense excitement felt in Partisan Review circles at the first publication of The Waste Land. But ...”

“... More is now known about Lucia Joyce’s infatuation with Beckett. There are new letters from Ezra Pound and Adrienne Monnier. But none of these items alters the picture to any great extent. The oddest aspect of the new edition is that Ellmann hasn’t allowed his general sense of Joyce to be modified by Joyce’s own letters. There is virtually no ...”

“... a transaction the standard of the Queen’s English is quite irrelevant. Seventy years ago, when Ezra Pound told his compatriots that their linguistic milieu, in relation to London, was like that of the Spain of the Senecas in relation to imperial Rome, he had a point – polemical, and more than polemical: but now, when C.H. Sisson trots out the same ...”

“... after she left Vassar. James Laughlin, founder of New Directions, publisher and friend of Ezra Pound, was so desperate to publish her that even after he accepted he wasn’t going to be allowed to, he still hoped at least to be permitted to announce that he was. The alpha males – and the alpha-beta males, and the beta-alpha males – of her ...”

“... are not instances of the particular or the concrete as these things would have been understood by Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams; they have an occluded quality, or the opacity of calligraphy or inscription (‘that parchment-like face’). Civilisation, history and culture – the Buddha’s head; Benedikt’s severed head – are ...”

“... about what he calls his ‘low-falutin’ ways, Child nonetheless quotes Shakespeare, Ezra Pound and James Wood, obsesses about the ugliness of certain words (‘onto’, ‘uni’), and mentions that he’s seen Waiting for Godot ‘about forty times’. He’s also a trivia and anagram fiend who was once struck by the simultaneous ...”

“... programmes in Stuttgart; in the States, ‘Tokyo Rose’, Mildred Gillars (‘Axis Sally’) and Ezra Pound, who was indicted for broadcasting from Italy; in Britain, John Amery and P.G. Wodehouse, who was cold-shouldered for giving a jaunty talk about life in his internment camp. Lord Haw-Haw was the most notorious radio traitor of all, and many ...”

“... Dublin away from Dublin with himself as head of the community. It was at this point, in 1913, that Ezra Pound entered his life and everything changed. Pound was seeking ‘markedly modern stuff’ to publish in a small literary review and Yeats had suggested that Joyce might provide it. An aesthetic of difficulty and ...”

“... nonsense anyway. This is roughly the position of Maud Ellmann’s brisk first book. Eliot called Pound’s Cantos ‘a reticent biography’, and she thinks we should apply the same description to Eliot’s work. According to her, early Modernism, despite the contrary pretence, was always individualistic, and steeped in Bergson. Now Eliot certainly went to ...”