American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pound's Politics and the Prize Quarrel
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The idea
Pound made wartime radio broadcasts for Fascist Italy, was charged with treason, found unfit to stand trial and confined to a hospital. A committee then gave his poetry a major prize, and the argument was whether a poem can be judged apart from its author.
In practice
A prize, given to a man confined.
Where people slip
The course reports it, and judges nothing.
Your place on the trail
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