I'm not sure that Jonathan Gill is correct when he says "Pound was
not a linguist."  His Latin was excellent; he possessed near-native
fluency in Italian and close to that in French and Spanish; his
Chinese became rather good by the '50s and his Greek and German were
adequate.
 
Tim Redman
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University of Texas at Dallas
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