And had perhaps the best taste in other poets, too....
Doug
On 15-Jul-08, at 5:07 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> I think, of all the rightwing poetic pricks swanning around the
> early part of the early 20thC -- Eliot, Yeats, the Later Auden,
> among others -- Pound was easily the nicest person.
>
> Totally barking mad, but he wote the best poems.
>
> That has to mean something ...
>
> R.
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