Can this be related to the qualities of Mr. Pound’s poetry?

3. After reading Mr. Pound’s output, discuss the adequacy of the following: “When content has become for an artist merely something to inflate and display form with, then the petty serves as well as the great, the ignoble equally with the lofty, the unlovely like the beautiful, the sordid as the clean.... Real feeling consequently becomes rarer, and the artist descends to trivialities of observation, vagaries of assertion, or mere bravado of standards and expression—pure tilting at convention.”

Bibliography

Cf. also Ezra Pound, his Metric and Poetry. 1917. (Bibliography, p. 29.)

Studies and Reviews

(John) Herbert Quick (Iowa, 1861)—novelist.

Farmer, lawyer, editor of Farm and Fireside, 1909-16. Author of The Fairview Idea, 1919; and of Vandemark’s Folly 1922, which introduces fresh material (canalboat life) into fiction, and also contributes to the literature that deals with the opening up of the middle west.

See Book Review Digest, 1919.