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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 "[[unclear]] of a Poetry Reader?
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.  
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.  

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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