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A Fair Course Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor. By Donald Davie. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 35s.)
NOT only a fine poet in his own right, but also a critic notably immune, hitherto, from modish varieties of bias, Dr. Davie would seem to be just the man to give us the definitive study of Ezra Pound. It is with genuine grief that one must report this book merely another stimulating commentary in the unstaunched spate of ditto. Pound has always divided people pretty hotly, and Dr. Davie does try to steer a fair course. Unfortunately, he had to pick upon Pound's Chinese transwheezes to make his key points. Little as Pound has ever known about Chinese, Dr. Davie knows even less. And he has been urged—by whom, one wonders?—to do, very strenuously, quite the wrong sort of homework.
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