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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

Indeed, the image even penetrates his definition of the art; we note that—

Which, being interpreted, means that Mr. Braithwaite is climbing up to date, and soon even T. S. Eliot will be taking law and gospel from the Transcript. Good for Boston!

Dear Editor: I take back most of what I have said to you and others, and thought to myself, about Ezra Pound. And I would like to make an ordeal of it by speaking in a public meeting or at least to a public person, for I want not only to clear myself of the vestments of ingratitude toward one who is a best friend of the muses, but to burn the vestments to ashes. I begin to like Pound very much; what's more to the point, I begin to learn from him—or perhaps, having been learning from him through the months of my distaste, I am at last burning with a fanaticism to shout the