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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 fumble 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 unclear for March 1918 that it is simply a common or garden unclear and the authorers? a plain and simple perpretrator of said mode of expression.

I don’t want any publicity out of you, I don’t 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 trivialities? as a merc writer on polities, the idea that accurate thought should be wasted on as trifling a thing as literature may annoy you but I should like an answer, a example or even an elaborate answer to the question, what good are you doing either either literature or your public- or your magazine by this sort of unclear?

I don’t want to write for you, I don’t care a curse whether you print the small amount of unclear writing which is unclear to live? but I would like five minutes of mental honesty from you on the subject of literature

Sincerely Yours (signed) Ezra Pound