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THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL,
EZRA POUND
by EUSTACE MULLINS
EZRA POUND is the most controversial literary
figure of our time—the same man who
edited the work of Yeats and T. S. Eliot,
helped introduce the poetry of Robert Frost
and influenced the development of Hemingway,
was also tried for treason and sent to
an insane asylum.
Eustace Mullins for the first time presents
the case for Ezra Pound, documenting
the tremendous contribution Pound has
made to contemporary American culture
in a witty and biting criticism of our society,
which gives lip service to poetry
while imprisoning its major poet.
In an intensely personal, unforgettable
portrait of Ezra Pound, Mullins tackles the
questions at the heart of the lifetime of controversy
and acrimony that has surrounded,
encircled, and finally enclosed Ezra Pound.
From Mullins' vivid writing emerges a portrait
of Ezra Pound, as an eccentric genius,
a literary leader who is both outrageously
outspoken and unquenchably exuberant—a
man who was kind when he wanted to be,
and quarrelsome when his beliefs were
questioned—this difficult individual, Ezra
Pound.
Mullins has documented Pound's crash
into the Victorian literary world of London
in the 1920s, his membership in the expatriate
Bohemia of Paris; the earlier quiet years
in Rapallo and the later tumultuous ones.
Included in THIS DIFFICULT INDI­
VIDUAL, EZRA POUND are excerpts
from the controversial broadcasts Pound
made from Italy during World War II; the
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