Thanks, Elspeth. In fact if one googles Elio/Pound/back door one can get a number of sources, but they are ALL second hand. Curious that Kenner didn't put it in THE INVISIBLE POET:T.S. ELIOT. Kenner started off with my mentor, Marshall McLuhan. They parted company on disagreements over an Eliot project. McLuhan had some hard feelings about it. His words about Kenner were not encouraging. P. -----Original Message----- From: Elspeth Healey To: [log in to unmask] Sent: 2004-Nov-09 12:26 PM Subject: Re: Pound's back-door comment to Eliot I'm not sure this will help but I think I recall this story also being related in one of the sections of Michael Levenson's _A Genealogy of Modernism_. I believe it was the discussion of TSE and EP in the book's epilogue, "The Editor and the loathed disturber." Apologies that I can't be more specific. Bests, Elspeth