Article: BERRYMAN AND POUND

In December of 1945, having been declared "insane and mentally unfit" to stand trial for treason, Ezra Pound was remanded to St. Elizabeths Hospital outside Washington. There he spent the next twelve and a half years. On several occasions in the late forties, John Berryman, then in his early thirties and living in Princeton, played an important part in Pound's affairs. Berryman came to the confined poet's attention in two ways, through James Laughlin, Pound's publisher, and through a review that Berryman wrote for The Nation at the end of 1946. The review was of a history of English poetry, and in it Berryman responded to a snub of Pound (". . . we shall excuse ourselves from discussing ...

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