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Originally Posted by Aaron Novick
Whatever criticism might be made of Ezra Pound the man, he has to his eternal credit the fact that he did NOT care for G. K. Chesterton.
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Interestingly, one of the best books ever written about Chesterton,
Paradox in Chesterton, was written by the great Pound scholar, Hugh Kenner, author of
The Pound Era.
I have just discovered from a biography of Chesterton that in 1935, when Chesterton and his wife went to visit Max Beerbohm in Rapallo, they also had lunch with Ezra Pound, and apparently they discussed Pound's "Social Credit" ideas at length.
I have to confess I am far more drawn to Chesterton, both as a man and as a writer.