James,
If you are going write an essay on the topic you've been assigned, you must either know in advance the poets' "critical concerns" (i.e. from having read their essays) and then examine the poems in light of this prior knowledge; or you must glean these critical concerns from the two poems and then look for corroboration of the ideas in the prose essays. Either way, you're going to have to read some of THEIR prose... which has been collected.  Specifically with regard to the "Pound angle" -- read the poetry he wrote before Mauberley, and you'll be in a position to judge for yourself whether the Pound-Mauberley identification makes sense.
 
Tim Romano
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  From: James Deboo 
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  Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 1:30 PM
  Subject: Query
 
 
  I've been set an essay on the following title:
  To what extent do the poems J Alfred Prufrock and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley reflect the critical concerns of T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound?
 
  It refers, I guess, to the fact that Pound has often been identified (I believe) with Mauberley, and likewise Eliot with Prufrock, and asks what, if anything, can be made of the similarity. If anyone has any thoughts on the Pound angle (and the Eliot?) then I'd be very grateful. 
 
  Your humble undergraduate,
 
  James Deboo.