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  • Death of Yeats end of Irish literary revival, says Pound, Noh enthusiast

    Sunday, March 28, 2010 Death of Yeats end of Irish literary revival, says Pound, Noh enthusiast By EZRA POUND Special to The Japan Times June 5, 1939 The death of William Butler Yeats [who died Jan. 28, 1939] closes the great era of the Irish literary revival. That death will doubtless have been duly recorded…

  • — God save the monk!

    — God save the monk!

  • POUND FOR POUND "Omar Shakespear Pound"

    POUND FOR POUND by Charlie Finch Today’s New York Times includes a small paid obituary, which reads, in its entirety, as follows: “Omar Shakespear Pound, Died peacefully at Princeton, NJ on 2 March 2010, aged 83, after long illness. Survived by his wife Elizabeth, daughters Katharine and Oriana, grandsons Ben and Joshua.” Shall we parse/deconstruct…