Most of you know this, but:
 
Useful documentation of Pound's ambivalent attitude toward the academy can
be found on pp. 13-16 of K. K. Ruthven's _Ezra Pound as Literary Critic_
(Routledge, 1990). It's a sad story -- not tragic, just mildly sad -- of a
man who kept being rejected by the academy, not wholly without reason, and
kept trying to break in anyway. Most poignant of all was when Pound had the
Rome Radio announcer call him "Dr. Pound" on the strength of his honorary
degree from Hamilton.
 
Jonathan Morse
Department of English, University of Hawaii