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And yet it was, beyond question, a strong intelligence that in–
fluenced Eliot-and Yeats-beneficently at a crucial moment, and
earned Pound an illustrious place in the history of English poetry. He
encouraged Yeats in his emergence out of the incantations of the Celtic
Twilight into speech-rhythms and a use of language spare, taut, and
ironical. He knew what, in a post-Swinburnian climate, had to be said
to the young talent if there was to be any hope of a prosperous develop–
ment. "Verse ought to be at least as well written as prose"-this was a
dictum that Pound could enforce in cogent (and constructive) par–
ticular criticism.
"I think," says Mr. Eliot in the essay of his reprinted in Mr.
Russell's volume,2 "that Pound was original in insisting that poetry
was an art, an art which demands the most arduous application and
study, and in seeing that in our time it has to
be
a highly conscious art."
In order to indicate the nature of a promising addiction to "art," more,
of course, is needed than a reference to the Provenc;al patterns that
Pound cultivated. What more, Mr. Eliot provides in a couple of sentences
further on:
2. An Examination of E(.ra Pound.
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by
Peter Russell. New Directions.
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