Ezra Loomis Pound Biography

. . . He breathed Letters, ate Letters, dreamt Letters." T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and many others have written on Pound's unselfish dedication to his making new of the arts, to the way in which, if he thought artists had promise, he would go to any lengths to help them, with complete disregard for his own convenience and with no suggestion that they were in his debt as a result. In his introduction to Pound's Literary Essays (1954) Eliot explained that, for Pound, "to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself. He has cared deeply that his contemporaries and juniors should write well; he has cared less for his personal achievement than for the life of letters and art." Pound had an almost infallible sense for talent and genius and a remarkable facility for making contact with major artists, often identifying them before anyone else. He was both friend and literary adviser for many of the greatest writers in English of his time: T.