Books: Renegade as a Young Man

PATRIA MIA — A DISCUSSION OF THE ARTS, THEIR USE AND FUTURE IN AMERICA (97 pp.)—Ezra Pound—Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago ($2.75).

On the edge of World War I, Idaho-born Expatriate Ezra Loomis Pound, whose tentative growls had already made him one of the more notable young lions in the literary jungles of London and Paris, sent a manuscript to a Chicago publisher. In the somewhat hectic conditions prevailing for small, avant-garde publishing firms, the manuscript was lost. Not until this year was Ezra Pound's essay Patria Mia accidentally recovered—in a dusty package which had...