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and I hope to god I shall never be such a fool as to expect accurate treatment from a man of your generation who has been connected with publications; but i should like to ask you what the hell you think you gain and what good you expect to do American literature or American criticism by printing such a jumble of utter inaccuracy as your "Adventures of a Poetry Reader?

As for statement on your p. 413 you can see by p. 57 of the Little Review for March 1918 that it is simply a common or garden lie and the authoress a plain and simple perpetrator of said mode of expression.

I dont want any publicity out of you, I dont suggest that you even publish this hasty epistle: and far be it from me to indicate that any allowance is to be made for my ten years interrupted analysis of the Provencal, Greek and Anglo-Saxon metric and huralectic?. As a mere writer on politics, the idea that accurate thought should be wasted on so trifling a thing as literature may annoy you but I should like an answer, a simple or even an elaborate answer to the question, what good are you doing either either literature or your public or your magazine by this work of unclear I don't want to write for you, I don't care a curse whether you print the small amount of contemporary writing which is unclear but I would like five minutes of mental? honesty from you on the subject of literature

Sincerely yours (signed) Ezra Pound