SOURCE: Viereck, Peter. “Pure Poetry, Impure Politics, and Ezra Pound: The Bollingen Prize Controversy Revisited.” In A Casebook on Ezra Pound, edited by William Van O'Connor and Edward Stone, pp. 92-103. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1959.
In the following essay, originally published inCommentary's April 1951 issue, Viereck debates whether “form and technique can be considered apart from context and meaning” by examining Pound's awarding of the 1949 Bollingen Prize for poetry.
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