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Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946.

Publisher	University of Oklahoma
Publication	World Literature Today
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0196-3570
Issues per Year	4
Volume	74
Issue	4
Published	2000-09-22

Role	Type	Name
Reviewee	n/a	Ezra Pound
Reviewee	n/a	Dorothy Pound
Author	n/a	William Pratt

Ezra Pound, Dorothy Pound. Letters in Captivity, 1945-1946. Omar Pound, Robert Spoo, eds. New York. Oxford University Press. 1999. xii + 398 pages + 32 plates. $35. ISBN 0-19-510793-4.

HERE, FOR ONCE, IS A BOOK whose notes are more interesting than the text, though the whole book is absorbing. The notes, chiefly the work of Omar Pound, are full of revelations about himself, about his mother Dorothy Shakespear Pound, and about his legal (but not biological) father, Ezra Loomis Pound. The period covered is the crucial year of Pound's humiliating arrest by Italian partisans...

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