Ezra Pound
(Mailed disdainfully by him from anywhere but America, and read prayerfully by a committee from Chicago.)
RAINUV: A ROMANTIC BALLAD FROM THE EARLY BASQUE
... so then naturally
This Count Rainuv I speak of
(Certainly I did not expect you would ever have heard of him;
You are American poets, aren't you?
That's rather awful ... I am the only American poet