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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
By Swift, Daniel
- ISBN
- 9780374284046 9780374709587
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Reviewed on September 15, 2017 | Fine Arts
Swift (English, New Coll. of the Humanities, UK; Bomber County) calls writer Ezra Pound (1885–1972) "the most difficult man of the 20th century," documenting how he was a mass of contradictions during the debate about his alleged madness which, Swift concludes, will always remain an open-ended question. The author presents Pound's life during his years of confinement at Washington's St. Elizabeths hospital for the insane (1945–58)...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
