
EZRA POUND: POET A Portrait of the Man and His Work. Volume I: The Young Genius, 1885-1920. By A. David Moody. Illustrated. 507 pp. Oxford University Press. $47.95. T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the ''Odd Couple'' of 20th-century poetry, a most unlikely pair who between them rewrote the rules for everyone else. Eliot was Felix, of course: fussy,...

Some plays begin with a question and eventually answer it. ''Treason,'' a new play by Sallie Bingham at the Perry Street Theater, does the opposite. It starts with a known quantity, the poet Ezra Pound, and at the end leaves you asking, ''What, exactly, was the attraction of this spineless, self-indulgent weasel?'' The play, superbly acted, with an...

CONNECTICUT must be a Land of Canaan for writers. No other explanation seems plausible for why people in the literary trade have wandered here in such abundance. Philip Roth has lived in Connecticut for many years; Arthur Miller and William Styron for decades. Frank McCourt moved here a few years ago. And Mark Twain, it almost feels, has never...
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30. oktober 1885 – 1. november 1972) var en amerikansk digter, musiker og kritiker i udlændighed, og var en drivkraft i den modernistiske digtning i begyndelsen og midten af 1900-tallet. Kritikeren Hugh Kenner beskrev sit møde med Pound således: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism." ("Jeg vidste pludselig at jeg var i selskab med modernismens centrum.")