Jon: See: "What I Feel About Walt Whitman": Ezra Pound, 1909, in "Ezra Pound: Selected Prose 1909-1965" edited by William Cookson: A New Directions Book, New York, 1973. and for discussion of "A Pact" "The Poetry of Ezra Pound", Hugh Witemeyer, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969 Rick Seddon McIntosh, NM