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...week, nonetheless, was a steamy ballet treatment of A Streetcar Named Desire, performed by the new troupe of Mia Slavenska and Frederic Franklin, onetime stars of the Ballet Russ de Monte Carlo...
American criticism would have suffered no major loss if this essay had forever remained in limbo, but Patria Mia does provide, along with a lot of Pound-foolishness, a cupful of penny-wiseness, winning freshness, a few flashes of brilliance, and some early glimpses of a talented, disorderly mind that was to approach genius before it sank into insanity...
Whitman Abroad. Patria Mia does not sound as if it had been written, but as if it had been talked-between the hours of 2 and 4 a.m.. in a Bloomsbury attic. As with most such nocturnal monologues, which always seem dazzling in the dark, a lot of Pound's dicta could not survive the dawn; but some would stand up at high noon, e.g., his tribute to Walt Whitman: "One may not need him at home. It is in the air, this tonic of his. But if one is abroad; if one is ever likely to forget...
Much of Patria Mia has the unexpected charm of a period piece, because in it the 28-year-old Pound (frequently sounding more like 18) tilts at dragons long since slain and forgotten. At the time of his writing (1913), Pound averred, there was not an artist worth a damn at work in America. "Any pleasant thing in symmetrical trousers" passed for poetry; American literature was pervaded by "magazitis," i.e., the dry rot of the high-toned magazines. Sneered Pound: "It is well known that in the year of grace 1870, Jehovah appeared to Messrs. Harper...
...reader of Patria Mia will regretfully conclude that someone should have tethered Ezra Pound in time, before, like the arts of Zammbuck, he went...