What I find most striking about Hemingway's portrayal of Pound in A Moveable Feast is that pound is about the only person whom Hemingway does not stab in the back. Hemingway paints humiliating portraits of Stein, Ford, and Fitzgerald (each of whom probably did more directly to help his career than Pound), but there is little nastiness toward Pound, which I attribute (without much direct evidence) to respect for Pound's unceasing efforts in the teens and twenties on behalf of other writers. Did Pound publish anything on Hemingway? Nothing much springs to my mind. And while we're talking about Hemingway and savagery, Wyndham Lewis's essay "The Dumb Ox" is an interesting critique of Hemingway's work. Though laced with Lewis's own brand of vitriol (and inspired, I think, by personal animosity toward Stein), it provides an intriguing counter-reading of the "Hemingway hero" as a valorization of impotence. Might be worth a look. Cheers, Bill At 10:15 AM -0800 1/23/01, Tim Bray wrote: >I suppose it may be remotely possible that there are others reading >this list who, like me, had never gotten around to Hemingway's "A >Moveable Feast." I just did, and it's an awfully good little book. >A couple of very intense portraits of EP, who used to play tennis with >EH. The fact that they had the highest regard for each others' work >kind of startles me. A picture of the two of them playing tennis >(EH says EP was good, but not who won) in Paris would have been a suitable >icon for 20th-cent EngLit in general, had anyone ever taken it. -T -- __________________________________________ William Cole, Assistant Director Computers in Composition and Literature Department of English The Ohio State University 464 Denney Hall 164 W. 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 phone: 614-292-4640 email: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://people.english.ohio-state.edu/cole.254