A Storm in His Luggage
C.K. Stead, 26 January 1995
Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
edited by David Gordon.
Norton, 313 pp., £23, June 1994,0 393 03540 9 Show More
edited by David Gordon.
Norton, 313 pp., £23, June 1994,
‘Agenda’: An Anthology. The First Four Decades
edited by William Cookson.
Carcanet, 418 pp., £25, May 1994,1 85754 069 7 Show More
edited by William Cookson.
Carcanet, 418 pp., £25, May 1994,
“... In a letter dated 22 January 1934 to his protégé James Laughlin, Pound makes passing reference to R.P. Blackmur, who had written a long unflattering essay, ‘Masks of Ezra Pound’, in an issue of the periodical Hound and Horn (which Pound renamed Bitch – Bugle). Next day he refers to it again – ‘24 depressing pages’. A year later there is an angry letter to Blackmur on the subject, sent, however, to Laughlin, perhaps to be sent on ... ”