New Criterion, June 1st, 1999
The permanently valuable part of Ezra Pound's oeuvre was written within about a decade of 1908, when he settled in London. He was influenced by late Romanticism, which he never completely broke free of. Some of Pound's major achievements occur in Cathay (1915) and Homage to Sextus Propertius (1917). He was a central figure in early modernism, but remains a minor poet.
The Pound that matters is early Pound, essentially the Pound of the London years. He arrived in London to stay (he had visited earlier) on August 14, 1908 and within a decade or so of that date had composed most of what is perma...
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