SOURCE: Wilhelm, J. J. “From Rock Drill (Cantos 85-95) to Deliverance (1955-1958).” In Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years (1925-1972), pp. 294-311. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
In the following essay, Wilhelm analyzes some of Pound's later poetic outputs from the 1950s and the efforts to free him from St. Elizabeths Hospital.
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