I enjoyed James Campbell’s piece in last Saturday’s Guardian review piece about Pound in London and my attention was particularly taken with the following extract:
“Go In a friendly manner,
Go with an open speech.
He lived in London for 12 years, from 1908 to 1920, gradually widening his poetry to absorb natural forms of speech and at the same time, the life of the city. If we could unearth Pound’s copy of the London A-Z, it would be a heavily thumbed, scribbled-over, asterisked and earmarked volume.”