Art for whose sake? Reading Pound's reputation in Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words and The Trials of Ezra Pound

From: Journal of Canadian Studies | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

In these works about Ezra Pound, Timothy Findley engages the disturbing legacy of this modernist predecessor, whose fascist sympathies have not precluded praise by the academy. The majority continue to separate Pound's poetry from his politics, the art from the man. Findley's works, I argue, encourage us to remove this cordon sanitaire around Pound. Through several framing techniques, Findley validates opposing points of view. He encourages readers to understand the subtle psychological realities that inform Pound's reputation, to question the basis of his primacy and to reconnect aesthetic ...

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