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Ваша оценкаEustace Mullins biography of and recollections of his friendship with the world reknowned poet Ezra Pound. Pound was also political prisoner who was arrested by the US government for making "pro-fascist" radio broadcasts during ww2. They knew the charges wouldn't stick in a court so they had him commited to a mental hospital where he was imprisoned for years.
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- innashpitzberg3 июня 2012 г.
True to his calling, Pound had not allowed a treason indictment or a cell in a madhouse to interfere drastically with his work. He was translating the Confucian Odes.
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Despite the fact that many literate persons who occupied subordinate positions in the government read and admired Pound's work, none of them dared to visit him. Even Huntingdon Cairns, who holds a fairly lofty post at the National Gallery, would only risk seeing Pound a few times during the twelve and a half years of his imprisonment in Washington.
Consequently, Pound's visitors could be divided into two groups, the youthful and reckless art students, or beatniks, and those admirers of his work who came from other countries and were therefore immune to reprisals by the federal government. This group included scholars and diplomats from almost every country in the world except Russia.777 - innashpitzberg27 августа 2013 г.
The jackals of the press usually described him by such epithets as "the crazy traitor", "the convicted traitor", or "the mad poet". Not only was it libelous to term him a traitor when he had not been convicted of treason, let alone tried, but the continued usage of such terms by the press over a period of years made it impossible to assure him a fair trial.
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