John Tytell has also written Reading New York, Paradise Outlaws, The Living Theatre, Naked Angels, and Passionate Lives. His work has appeared in The American Scholar, Partisan Review, the New York Times, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. He is professor of English at New York University and lives in New York City.
Tytell here offers an evenhanded, thoughtful biography of one of the most influential poets of our time. A complicated and contradictory man, Pound was both a brilliant creator (and editor) and a destructive force as a wartime fascist spokesman; his life-work, The Cantos , ends with the line ``Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.'' Photos. (October)
"The best and most balanced critical biography of Ezra Pound - Tytell maintains a striking balance between the rambunctious man and the gifted poet and tells his story not as an act of judgment but as a searching inquiry into the madness of art." - Leon Edel; "A fascinating figure - and Tytell has written a fascinating book...a vivid, sensitive portrait that will go a good way toward clarifying, for all of us, the enigma that was Pound." - Washington Post Book World; "Exhaustively researched and admirably balanced....[Tytell] has produced an important and a valuable study of literary modernism and its infamous 'midwife.' " - Cleveland Plain Dealer"
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