Pound vs. Eliot

[jdvanwijk]

It's risky to deduct the writer/composer/painter from isolated works ('This piece is in A minor, Beethoven must have been mighty sad when he wrote this.') but I agree with jdeirmend that the full body of work of an artist does permit this to an extent. Almost every writer has a few recurring themes in his full body of work that he obsesses over, and as a reader, this can tell us something about him.