Article: Pound In Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism.(Review)

Pound In Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism. By Leon Surette. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xii + 314 pp.

Leon Surette's most recent book on Ezra Pound is an important contribution to Pound studies, especially in the cautionary tale it so thoroughly documents that challenges those of us who have been long drawn to Pound's poetry. For he tells the story of Pound's descent into anti-Semitism, a fall from zealous economic reformer into a paranoid conspiracy theorist who sees the Jews as responsible for the decline of Western culture.

Surette not only wants to tell the story of Pound's anti-Semitism again--for ...

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