No points for answering why this e-mail is dated as it is.
 
There's a (slight) temptation to respond testily to this post, since all these questions (except perhaps the critical responses to his late work) would be easily accessible in any biography or (even) an encyclopedia entry. Making lemonade from lemons, however, I suppose I might ask if anybody has comments on the various Pound biographies in circulation, especially, I suppose, on their treatment of his last days.
 
I personally remember coming to university having just read Kenner's Pound Era -- the first real book of criticism I had encountered -- and waxing eloquent about Kenner to my seminar prof, who, it seems, was not an enormous fan of either Kenner's or Pound's style. I did later bang out, on an old typewriter, a long letter to Kenner thanking him for the book and asking for advice on persuing an honest course through poetry criticism; to my surprise I received a long e-mail from him a few days later.
 
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>         I was wondering what Ezra Pound died of. And whether there have
> been any criticial considerations of his work that took his final
> illnesses into account and whether the illness might have played a role in
> the last work. Also what was Pound's last poem?
>