Ezra
Pound at the time of his arrest, 1945
LINKS:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. EZRA
POUND (BY ROBERT WERNICK, "NOTES OF A SCIOLIST")
http://www.robertwernick.com/articles/pound.shtml
EZRA
POUND (WIKIPEDIA)
HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/EZRA
POUND
N. Y. TIMES, "RESEARCHERS DISPUTE EZRA
POUND'S INSANITY" (BY HERBERT MITGANG, 10/31/1981)
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/31/books/researchers-dispute-ezra-pound-s-insanity.html
POETS.ORG
HTTP://WWW.POETS.ORG/POET.PHP/PRMPID/161
PENNSOUND,
CENTERS FOR PROGRAMS IN CONTEMPORARY WRITING
HTTP://WRITING.UPENN.EDU/PENNSOUND/X/POUND.HTML
Law Library - American Law and Legal
Information, Notable
Trials and Court Cases - 1941 to 1953
HTTP://LAW.JRANK.ORG/PAGES/2991/EZRA-POUND-TRIAL-1946.HTML
SPEECHIFICATION:
THE TRIAL OF EZRA POUND
HTTP://SPEECHIFICATION.COM/2008/07/21/THE-TRIAL-OF-EZRA-POUND/

Ezra Pound, after having been found insane,
at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Pound's pro-fascist radio
speeches on Italian radio during WW II led to the poet being charged
with treason.
additional
reading:
Tytell, John. Ezra Pound: The
Solitary Volcano. (New
York:
Doubleday-Anchor Press, 1987).
Cornell, Julian.
the Trial of Ezra Pound (John Day, 1966).
Mullins, Eustace. Ezra Pound: This Difficult Individual (Fleet,
1961).
Redman, Tim. Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism (Cambridge
Univ. Press, 2009).
Torrey, E. Fuller. The Roots of Treason: Ezra
Pound and the Secrets of St. Elizabeths (Lucas, 1999).
Pound, Ezra.
The Pisan Cantos (collection of poetry written while in prison)
Pound, Ezra. Pound's Fascist Cantos (Jack Ross,
trans.)(1997).
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