Books: Pound Still Soaring

ELEVEN NEW CANTOS—Ezra Pound— Farrar & Rinehart ($1.50). When last year Publisher Farrar brought out the first U. S. edition of A Draft of XXX Cantos (TIME, March 20, 1933), by violent, obscure but famed Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, he did not expect it to land on a best-seller list. Acclaimed by many a critic and fellow-writer as foremost living U. S. poet, Pound is little conned by plain readers. But Publisher Farrar rightly considers him a feather in his cap, continues to publish him in the face of little comprehension, no popular...