Conflicted

EP has just got out of St Elizabeths in my reading of Moody's brilliantly detailed and even-handed biography. It's proving an odd read insofar as I assumed Pound would have deeply regretted his anti-Semitism post-war, but this is clearly not the case. So no matter what the level of sympathy one feels for him regarding his incarceration, that sympathy is necessarily compromised. And it doesn't help that he embodies the worst kind of intellectual arrogance. Not a nice man. Yet generous to others and admired by many despite it all. I reckon I stand with William Carlos Williams with regard to how I feel about Pound, and since Williams is eminently sane I think that's a pretty good place to be.