Noel Stock

Maybe biographies of the early 1970's were more staid than the current reader is used to seeing but, I probably should have read the blurb. Martin Seymour-Smith, in his review, calls the book "dispassionate": should a biography, particularly one of a poet, be dispassionate? Certainly, in this case, my answer would be, "No". I would chose the word dry, or even desiccated as a better description.

I wouldn't call this a bad book; it seems well researched and the details of Pound's life are all there: it's just so deadly dull!… (meer)