How profound, didn't the art come from the man ? O.K. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:19 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Pound's treason To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks for sending that, Robert. The conflict between art and artist can be a sticky wicket, I agree -- especially when it concerns such serious moral questions as Pound's treason, but even in that case I say condemn the man, not his art -- his art in my encounter of it then belongs to me and my world. His crime does not. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lawrence quotes from *Wikipedia*. > > *In the late 1940s, when the poet Ezra Pound was incarcerated in St. > Elizabeth’s Hospital on treason charges against the US, he corresponded > with Mullins. In their correspondence, Mullins exclaimed "THE JEWS ARE > BETRAYING US", in a letter written on Aryan League of America stationery.* > > Pound was never convicted of treason. He was found to be of unsound mind, > incapable of understanding the court proceedings or of taking part in his > own defense. Immediately after the trial he was taken to St Elizabeth's > Hospital: > 'insane.' He remained there for twelve years. (The Federal prosecutors > apparently did not present their case with much vigor.) > > I believe the best account of what happened to Pound, after he was > arrested by the US, in Italy, and ended > up in St Elizabeth's, is an article by Robert Wernick. But of course, > that's only what I believe. > > <http://www.robertwernick.com/articles/pound.shtml> > > Robert Paul > > > > >