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To: Solon who wrote (80531)	3/9/2004 5:17:33 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Oh Pound is fascinating! Charleymane may know more about him than I do, though. He lived with Yeats for three winters and they ended up having great influence on each other. Together they created Modernism in poetry. Pound was a polymath, really brilliant, fluent in five or six languages (all of which he used in The Cantos). But he was a Fascist, a Mussolini supporter, was arrested and held in a detention camp during WWII, and later hospitalized at St. Elizabeth's Hospital until his death, I believe. Sanity's a tough thing. It's a legal term, not a psychiatric one, and the US authorities, I believe, wanted to see his influence diminished after the war and so committed him.

To: Solon who wrote (80531)	3/10/2004 9:34:57 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

He was the sun around which so many had their orbit You can make a case that if not for Pound we wouldn't have heard of TS Eliot. He edited several influential literary journals in his day and was the only one willing to publish Eliot. He also revived troubador poetry in an effort to reunite words and tune, to make poetry a "whole art" again. Was there any true mental illness? Somewhere along the line he became obsessed with 'usurists' and 'international shysters.' In his latter days he implored people to 'fight for their race', whatever the hell that meant... He really is a tale of two lives. I prefer his 'Latin Quarter' period...