The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia

The first paragraph of Tryphonopoulos and Adams' Preface encapsulates the essential problems when attempting to tackle such a controversial, complex figure as Ezra Pound (1885‐1972). They write that Pound's “oeuvre is enormous, unmanageable”. Pound wore many hats, as an editor “his influence touches hundreds of other writers, great and small. Any serious student of Modern, or twentieth‐century poetry and literature in general, must come to terms with him”. However, he is “as an author … notoriously difficult to enter”. There is also the problem of “his habit of apparently willful obscurity and use of an array of foreign languages”, many...