Robert,
 
  had tried to send you a mail to yr new adress, but obviously I have problems with the correct


 Torrey's book not even TRIES to be more or less objective. His prejudices against EP are
obvious from the first pages on. And the rest of that book tries to construct some kind of
conspiracy theory behind which, of course, is the solid reproach: Pound shd have been
sentenced. He was not insane. He simpy knew how to get psychiatrists and lawyers on to his
side. The whole trial thus was plain nonsense etc etc.
 
  I still find Julian Cornell's "The Trial of Ezra Pound" (NY: John Day 1966) the best book to read on


I really don't think it much worthwhile to discuss Torrey any further . Strangely, for example,
when I had hoped that Casillo's "Genealogy of the Demons" wd have raised a pretty hot


The question of EP's sanity is another and very complicated thing. In the clinical sense [is that the
right word?] he of course was insane or rather suffered from attacks of insanity and in his later


alex