[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Originally Posted by Bill Carpenter

Maybe. Did it seem unchecked? There are some quite chastened utterances on record. Was that just a sham? Or intermittent regret?

Sounds like certainly some inconsistencies on record for sure, and that I am running across the ugly bits and you some of the more reformed bits. Which wouldn't be surprising as I do think mental health was involved at the end and the wax/wane seems to be typical of the primate swingset in our skulls. Also friends were trying to dull his edge for his own good and, maybe for their own needs as well.

[Stephen Hampton]

An old bitch gone in the teeth, a botched human being, an icon of modernism.

"I spoil everything I touch. I have always blundered ... All my life I believed I knew nothing, yes, knew nothing. And so words became devoid of meaning."

I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Nothing more to say;
Listening to the wind.
Stephen

[Ann Drysdale]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a6713591.html

[Edward Zuk]

This morning I came across two interesting pieces that are apropos. The first is Marjorie Perloff's review of a new biography of Pound in the TLS:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1628314.ece

The second is an interview with Christopher Ricks that talks a bit about T.S. Eliot's anti-semitism. Ricks is, of course, the author of T.S. Eliot and Prejudice as well as the author of a new annotated edition of the poems:

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/bl...s-ugly-touches

You'll have to scroll down to see the relevant questions.