“... of course, look down on him. At the same time, salutes were guaranteed from Privates Lawrence, Pound and Eliot; even from Lance-Corporal Lewis. And in the Army, you got paid: paid every week, not just when you happened to get lucky – which, in Ford’s book-writing life to date, had not been very often. By 1915, Ford had published over forty books ...”

“... final) book on Eliot’s sexuality ‘T.S. Eliot’s Uranian Muse’. The term occurs in a poem Pound sent Eliot, as part of a letter, shortly after he had finished editing the manuscripts of The Waste Land. ‘Sage Homme’ (a play on ‘Sage Femme’, the French term for a midwife) opens: These are the poems of Eliot By the Uranian Muse begot; A Man ...”

“... A collection of passages from John Butler Yeats’s letters appeared in a small book edited by Ezra Pound in 1917. Another small volume, edited by Lennox Robinson, appeared in 1920, and Pound published John Butler Yeats’s Early Memories in 1923. In 1944, Joseph Hone selected a larger edition of the ...”

“... talented modernists too: in Eliot’s fear of her work instituting a ‘new barbarian age’ or Ezra Pound claiming that ‘Gertie Stein … writes yittish wit englisch wordts’, or even Hemingway noting her ‘lovely, thick, alive immigrant hair’.) The charges against her have been so many: that her writing was nonsensical, that it was ...”

“... been compared to is Finnegans Wake, though in Woods’s version the tone often converges with Ezra Pound’s ‘Uncle Ez’ folksiness. Certainly Schmidt, who himself translated Poe, was steeped in British and American literature – every page of the German original is packed with English-language citations. I tried to order a copy through local ...”

“... involves you presenting your embodied self alongside your textual or digital double. In 1919, Ezra Pound was held up in Paris for hours by an American official who doubted his bona fides, and he was still fulminating about this delay over ‘folderols’ eight years later. Today, although you still have to be seen, you can offload some of the ...”

“... I think, the utter predictability of the phrase. (Like the fragment of Greek lyric recycled by Ezra Pound, pretending to be three survivals on a scrap of papyrus: ‘Spring … /Too long … /Gongula … ’) My bet is that the letter in Infidelity is the poet’s work, not the woman’s. Maybe she is giving the letter back to him, rather in the ...”

“... There are the Alps,’ Basil Bunting wrote on the flyleaf of Ezra Pound’s Cantos, ‘you will have to go a long way round/if you want to avoid them.’ T.J. Clark is an Alpinist of distinction: Courbet, Manet, Pollock, Poussin, no foothills, no detours (apart from Lowry). And now Picasso. There are the Alps ...”

“... who was about to go to Yale. ‘Sitney’s poetic passions that summer included Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Virgil and Sextus Propertius.’ He also introduced his girlfriend to Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Carolee Schneemann. ‘Her eyes opened wide.’In later years, Acker often said that she had studied linguistics under Roman Jakobson. This wasn’t ...”

“... Straus, £20) – is somewhere between a Collected and Selected and begins with a homage to Ezra Pound:Today is one of those daysOne swears is a prophecy:The air explicit and moist,As though filled with unanswered prayersThis sounds like the day everything started for Wright. After graduating from college in 1957, he joined the army and was posted ...”

“... with offers which averaged out at 7 per cent. Gormley tells us that by chance he met Derek Ezra, Chairman of the National Coal Board, at a social gathering, and said to him, entirely unknown to Laurence Daley or the Executive: ‘The figure you will have to settle at is in the region of three and a half quid’ (representing about 15 per cent). From 1 ...”

“... on the other hand, is no Calvinist at all, and neither is Hopkins (Davie’s own counter-example). Pound oscillated between strenuous calls for measure and the utter abandonment of it, and (many would say) lost his soul in the process. In its less extreme form the argument is not about self-denial but about public poetry, about pitching your language within ...”

“... as Chinese poets looked into the Confucian Book of Songs. In the Modernist era, the poets, as Pound wisecracked, have been more interested in Muses than Moses and though bits of the Psalms have inevitably been embedded in poems, new translations have become the province of theologians and academics. The latest is a handsome edition, complete with the ...”

“... gave the whole thing a bit of a lift. I picked him up from a piece in the New Statesman about Ezra Pound. It was very lively so he was recruited.He wrote on Elizabeth Bishop and Richard Wilbur for the ‘Review’. And on Lowell?No, I don’t think on Lowell, but he wrote well on those two and others. He wrote various things in the later ...”

“... which tells you far more about a literary programme than about the faraway object of scrutiny. Pound pounced on ideograms and Charles Olson seized Mayan glyphs as wished-for evidences of concrete, unalienated writing: language apparently conducted so that the sign itself for flint was rocky, and comb sprouted visual teeth. Both men can be counted as ...”