No English-speaking poet of this century has been the subject of as much biographical scrutiny as Ezra Pound. As in the case of Byron, Pound's literary works and his personal life were deeply entwined from the first, and this condition of his poetry's existence raises - as Byron's work has always raised - serious problems for our ordinary understanding of what poems do and how they are to be read.

LRB 7 July 1988 | PDF Download