This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the questions they have asked.

Preface
From Wabash to Washington, 1907-1947
A Prize Fight and Institutionalization, 1948-1951
Kenner, Watts, and Professional Attention, 1951-1961
Sailing after Knowledge, 1962-1971
The Pound Era and Its Monumental Companion, 1971-1985
Ezra Pound Studies and the Postmodern Turn, 1980-1990
Reading Ezra Pound in the New Millennium, 1990-2016
The Many Lives of Ezra Pound: Biographies and Memoirs, 1960-2015
Periodicals on Ezra Pound, 1954-2017
Conclusion
Chronology of the Bollingen Controversy
Bibliography
Index

MICHAEL COYLE is Professor of English at Colgate University and has published widely on Pound.