A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry

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I've started reading Daniel Swift's The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound.  I've only just gotten past the introduction, but I can see already that it's going to be an eye-opener for me.  I don't think that I'll reach the conclusions that the author proposes, such as (not a new proposition) that The Cantos are, in the end, a failure, and his life a betrayal of not just his home country, but of his poetic project.  But it's making me see Pound in a whole new and not very comfortable way.