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It is a great and widespread error to identify the best modern poetry with the disciples of Ezra Pound, as the naïve Mr. T.S. Eliot, himself one of them, did. Perhaps we owe this bit of literary foolishness to the American professors of English Literature, not necessarily because Pound was also American but because they were too naïvely led astray by the editors--and editresses--of poetry's "little journals."

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 108