The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound (1885‐1972) remains one of the most controversial figures of twentieth century Anglo‐American letters. He was a poet, translator, critic, dramatist, librettist, expatriate and a friend of T.S.Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and others. Pound broadcast anti‐American and antisemitic radio talks in support of Mussolini during the Second World War from enemy territory. He was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum outside Washington DC in the years following the Second World War. His last years have been the subject of a powerful radio play, Ezra, by Bernard Kops, performed at the New Half Moon Theatre in London in 1981. Pound, played by...