A compilation of personal reminiscences, analyses and commentaries; a tribute for the poet’s eightieth birthday. First edition. With numerous illustrations, including a number of manuscripts and the front wrapper of Orientamenti (1944), “one of the rarest of all Pound’s books.” The very occasional marginal note, and a note in ink laid in to rear from David Moody, referencing “the custodian of Ezra Pound’s papers,” which was how Stock was described on the rear flap before that being blacked out. A near fine book in a very good jacket, with a little rubbing, a small tear to the back, and a little loss to the front.

Contents: Noel Stock, “Introduction”; Conrad Aiken, “Ezra Pound: 1914”; Herbert Read, “Ezra Pound”; Marianne Moore, “Tribute”; Hugh Kenner, “Leucothea’s Bikini: Mimetic Homage”; A. Alvarez, “Craft and Morals”; Peter Whigham, “Ezra Pound and Catullus”; Donald Gallup, “The Search for Mrs. Wood’s Program”; Allen Tate, “Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize”; Hugh Mac Diarmid, “The Return of the Long Poem”; Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, Henry Newbolt, W. B. Yeats, Richard Aldington, W. C. Williams, F. M. Ford, e. e. cummings, “A Bundle of Letters”; William Fleming, “Ezra Pound and the French Language”; Ernest Hemingway, “A Note on Ezra Pound”; Christine Brooke-Rose, “Piers Plowman in the Modern Wasteland”; Tom Scott, “An Appreciation”; Wyndham Lewis, “The Rock Drill”; Joseph Fetler Malof, “Ez Pound, Inc.”; Denis Goacher, “BBC THIRD PROGRAM: Ezra Pound—Translations from the Chinese.”