Re Pound's Treason Charge:
 
Robert Spoo is quite correct in arguing that a treason conviction would
not have been a given--this is why I quite careful to say that Pound was
guilty of treason as it was understood by the legal community at the time.
 
The distinction has just enough moral significance in my mind to consider
Pound's imprisonment unjust.
 
The burden of proof in the literary courts is, I guess, lower.
 
Jonathan Gill
Columbia University