Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972

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This third and final volume of A. David Moodys critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pounds personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume we experience the 1939-1945 World War and Pounds hubristic involvement in Fascist Italys part in it; we encounter the grave moral and intellectual error of Pound holding the Jewish race responsible for the war; and his consequent downfall being charged with treason condemned as an anti-Semite and shut up for twelve years in an institution for the insane. Further we see Pound stripped for life by his own counsel and wife of his civil and human rights. Pound endured what was inflicted upon him justly and unjustly without complaint; and continued his lifetimes effort to promote in and through his Cantos and his translations a consciousness of a possible humane and just social order. The contradictions run deep and compel as tragedy does a steady and unprejudiced contemplation and an answering depth of comprehension.