Laughlin has employed his unique perspective on Pound's work to provide a delightful introduction to one of the greatest modern American poets. Combining memoir with textual scholarship and critical analysis in a lucid and refreshingly casual prose style, these essays and lectures address most of the important questions about Pound's life and work: his study and translations of the medieval troubadours; his sources and method for the Cantos and Propertius sequence; his controversial economic theories; and the poetic transformation of such things into original lyric poetry of the first order. This volumes includes a first-time published story "In the Water-butt", which Pound wrote during his college days and a bibliography of Pound's own source-books on economics.
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