Me, bracing to have an anvil made of downvotes dropped on my head : Pound is not a problematic like. He is uncontroversially one of the most important poets of the English language. Pound spent time in a mental institution, and his own interpretation of fascism, which was deeply unusual and not really shared by anyone, was something he eventually renounced. He was by all accounts a very personally decent guy.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that while he renounced the "horrible, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism," he never explicitly disavowed the fascism. That said, given that his final years were consumed by a depression so deep he spent them in almost complete silence, he was presumably wracked with a guilt that may have made a formal renunciation superfluous.
Gertrude Stein disliked Pound, partially because he broke her favorite chair. She also said he was a "village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if not, not."
Me, bracing to have an anvil made of downvotes dropped on my head : Pound is not a problematic like. He is uncontroversially one of the most important poets of the English language. Pound spent time in a mental institution, and his own interpretation of fascism, which was deeply unusual and not really shared by anyone, was something he eventually renounced. He was by all accounts a very personally decent guy.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that while he renounced the "horrible, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism," he never explicitly disavowed the fascism. That said, given that his final years were consumed by a depression so deep he spent them in almost complete silence, he was presumably wracked with a guilt that may have made a formal renunciation superfluous.
Gertrude Stein disliked Pound, partially because he broke her favorite chair. She also said he was a "village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if not, not."