[Quincy Lehr]

October 30, 1885, baby!

[W.F. Lantry]

"What thou lov'st well remains. The rest is dross."

[James Brancheau]

Oh boy.

A pillar. Too bad for his bulls#@t in other matters. Imagism and only emotion endures were among my earliest attractions to poetry (along with haiku).

[Julie Steiner]

Should I bake a Pound cake?

[Catherine McDonald]

Went to a fascinating presentation put on by Dartmouth at the Robert Frost Farm where I learned that Frost headed up the effort to get Pound out of prison. He enlisted Eliot, Hemingway, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. Lots of people had issues with Pound, but if I recall correctly, Frost's attitude was, this guy has helped us and we can't just let him rot away in prison. Their efforts were successful.

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/library/...-robert-frost/

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

"Meh..."
Mond,Sassoon, and a Goldsmid.

[John Whitworth]

One poet he did not get was Robert Graves. He thought Pound a rotten poet and a bad man. I think he has it about right.

[James Brancheau]

(But, John, you're pre-Pound)

[Bill Carpenter]

Astounding metrist. Magnificent (if artificial) reader. Burned in the flame of verse. Incomprehensible that he thought Mussolini somehow advanced Jefferson's cause. Can anyone shed light on that? The curse of banker domination is certainly becoming more obvious to the middle class than ever, now that the middle class is not allowed to earn interest on its savings -- which is a form of slavery. Is that part of it? A warning to expats?

[Michael Juster]

Pound was an arrogant, bigoted traitor who spouted a sick combination of anti-Semitism and crackpot economics--as early as the 1930's he was a thoroughly evil man.

His only conceivable defense was the one ultimately chosen for him by his literary advocates: madness.

Please don't try to argue this point unless you have read the transcripts of his vile broadcasts on behalf of the Fascists while the soldiers of our country and our allies were sacrificing their lives for our freedoms.