Ezra Pound significantly shaped twentieth-century poetry and literature through his innovative ideas. He mentored prominent ...

The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound, by Daniel Swift, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages Ezra Pound is a litmus test as much as he is a poet. His cartoonish ...

In the winter of 1949, a group of judges — including poets T.S. Eliot and Robert Lowell — met to decide the winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize for the best book of poetry published in the ...

Percy Shelley called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” No poet sought acknowledgment more enthusiastically than Ezra Pound. No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either ...

On January 18, 1914, Ezra Pound, helped by William Butler Yeats, and, behind the scenes, by Yeats’s patron and friend, Lady Gregory, held a luncheon for Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, a man whom Pound regarded ...

On the poet’s time in Rapallo. When Pound returned to Rapallo in 1958, following his internment in a madhouse (or mental hotel) for having made Fascist broadcasts during World War II, his life, too, ...

Robert D. Kaplan’s “Adriatic” takes readers on a political, intellectual and personal tour from Italy to Albania. By Thomas F. Madden A poet who was undone by his own words. By R. O. Blechman “Only ...

IT had been raining since early the night before, almost from the moment I got off the train at Rapallo. The rain flooded the piazza down to the sea, and during the morning that famous Riviera wind ...

There is a fable that persists in even themost respectable quarters, perhaps because it has retained its power to shock for more than half a century. The most sure-fire way to fund a creative career ...