Exiles, James Joyce - Ezra Pound (review date 1916)

Ezra Pound (review date 1916)

SOURCE: Pound, Ezra. “Mr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage.” Drama 6, no. 2 (February 1916): 122–32.

[In following review, Pound declares Exiles to be unstageable in the atmosphere of the contemporary theater.]

Two months ago I set out to write an essay about a seventeenth century dramatist. As I had nearly finished translating one of his plays into English, my interest in him must have been more than that of a transient moment. His own life was full of adventure. The play had a number of virtues that one could quite nicely mark out on a diagram. It was altogether a most estimable “subject”; yet, when I began to ask myself whether my phrases really corresponded to fact, whether it was worth while causing a few readers to spend their time on the matter, I was convinced that it was not. I believed that old play and the author had fallen into desuetude from perfectly justifiable causes. I agreed...

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