You might look at my article "The Repatriation of Pound:  A View from
the Archives" in  Paideuma (1978?).

Cheers!

Tim Redman

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:44:49 -0700 charles moyer
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>     Is there any such thing as being "hard of reading"?
>
>     Thank you, Alex Schmidt, for drawing attention to Pound's translation of
> Sophocles' "Women of Trachis". In the "Foreward" to the book Denis Goacher
> reflects on Pound in St. Eliizabeths. He writes,
>
>     "Walking away down the sand-coloured path, I sometimes wondered how many
> of Pound's vistors in a year were really disturbed in their hearts by what
> they saw. How many understand what brought him there, what had been the
> content of his broadcasts? Did they know the Italian government was so
> bewildered by his radio speeches that they thought he must be acting as a
> spy? Did they know that, according to one reliable report, at the outbreak
> of the war the United States consular service in Rome treated Pound as
> persona non grata, and stymied his repatriation after he and his wife had
> settled affairs and bought 'plane tickets? Or early in 1942 Pound tried to
> join the diplomatic train which carried a large group of Americans from
> Italy to Lisbon for shipment back home- permission being refused him by the
> American government?"
>     Is this true? It certainly does not sound like the Pound we have been
> discussing. Does anyone know the source of the "reliable report" Goacher
> mentions?
>
> CDM

Tim Redman
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