The Hemingway Review, March 22nd, 2001
ALLUSIONS TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY appear in predictable places in poetry--in Ezra Pound's Cantos, for example, most notably in #16, where Hemingway is listed among other writers and artists who went off to battle in the Great War:
And Ernie Hemingway went to it, too much in a hurry, And they buried him for four days. (72)
This Canto, which begins, "And hell mouth; dry plain and two mountains," was written around 1925; Hemingway met Pound in Paris, through Sherwood Anderson's letter of introduction, when he arrived in 1921. About halfway through the Canto, Pound turns specifically to the war...
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