2 thoughts on “The Poetry of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot

  1. to publish T. S. Eliot ‘s ” The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock “. Eliot had sent “Prufrock” to almost every editor in England, but was rejected. He eventually sent it to Pound, who instantly saw it as a work of genius and submitted it to

  2. Yes, “Pound’s vers libre is such as is only possible for a poet who has worked tirelessly with rigid forms and different systems of metric.” Excellent! As a formal poet, I couldn’t agree more.

    I was amused by “It is true that up to very recently it was impossible to get free verse printed in any periodical …” The opposite is true these days–formal verse isn’t impossible to get published, but close to it.

    Well done, sir!

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