Pound vs. Eliot

[abu nuwas]

Pound did not think much of what he had written, nor need we. He was a self-publicist, like Tracey Emin, and is therefore famous. He thought that poetry could be divided up into sections, one of which, was that which cannot be lost in translation. The business of translation drives a coach and horses through M Barthes, and his ideas about the reader.

He was America's Lord Haw-Haw: that is all.