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...Including Walter Lippmann, Heywood Broun, John Reed, Stuart Chase, Alan Seeger. *Eliot's avowed admiration for Pound (who "discovered" him) has provoked bitter criticism. Last year, a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the U.S. Library of Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award...
...pages, the Nation, in effect, charged that the Saturday Review of Literature was suppressing free opinion. The suppression: the S.R.L.'s refusal to print a letter, signed by 84 poets, critics and others, criticizing two articles the S.R.L. had printed last June about Poet Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize (TIME, Aug. 29). The Nation itself printed the letter last week, alongside an article accusing the S.R.L. of everything from "a philistine attack on modern literature" to fascism. (The S.R.L. mildly observed that it had printed about 95 letters in the Bollingen controversy, considered it closed...
Poet Ezra Pound, 63, rheumy-eyed expatriate follower of Mussolini and fascism, now living out his days in a Washington, D.C. insane asylum (if he ever recovers, he will be tried for treason), won the Bollingen Prize of $1,000 for The Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance...