I agree about Pound, Bill. He was a self-righteous blowhard at times, but this was counterbalanced later by conscience and humility. Several years ago I got to know an old English poet in Italy who had known Pound well in his later years in Venice (in the '60s). He told me that Pound had come to see how he'd been gravely mistaken in his support of Mussolini and anti-Semitism.
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