Table of Contents

PART ONE: 1939 - 1945
Between Paradise & Propaganda: 1939-40
A Dutifully Dissident Exile, 1941
In a Web of Contradictions: 1942-43
'To Dream the Republic': 1943-44
For the Resurrection of Italy: 1944-45
PART TWO: 1945
Talking to the FBI
A Prisoner in the Eyes of Others
'In the mind indestructible': The Pisan Cantos
PART THREE
American Justice
Giving Cornell his head - Lunacy at St. Elizabeths
PART FOUR: ST ELIZABETHS 1946 - 1958
A Year in the Hell Hole
Resilience: 1947 - 50
Histrionics - 'a awful lot of company' - No release - Thrown to wolves - Courage against cowardice
The Life of the Mind: 1950 - 55
'Indictment Dismissed': 1956-58
Clearing Out
PART FIVE: 1958 - 1972
A Final Testament: 1958 - 59
'You Find Me In Fragments': 1959 - 62
His Sickness & His Wealth: 1962 - 64
Afterlife of the Poet: 1965 - 1972
APPENDIX
The Settlement of the Estate

Promotional Information

Winner of the 2015 Ezra Pound Society Book Prize

About the Author

A. David Moody is a Professor Emeritus of the University of York, and the author of the acclaimed Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet (Cambridge University Press: 1979, 1994).

Reviews

Moody explains and elucidates Pounds massive poetic output at length... subtitled The Tragic Years 19391972. It gives a detailed and moving account of the second half his life, which was indeed tragic.
*A. Banerjee (Kobe Jogakuin University), The Journal*

Its almost a day-to-day account of the life of this prolific and erudite writer and scholar. As such, it illuminates and validates the poetry.
*David Crook, Bookwitty*

A landmark three volume biography...David Moody's life of Ezra Pound is complete, and a splendid work it is.
*Denis Donoghue, Irish Times*

magisterial...a masterful biography, as meticulous as its is broad-ranging.
*Eric Ormsby, New Criterion*

The third volume is a magnificent conclusion to a magisterial biography and it's hard to imagine a better researched account of Pound's life and work emerging for generations to come.
*Sean Sheehan, Irish Left Review*

With this final volume, aptly subtitled "The Tragic Years," Mr. Moody [ -- a sympathetic and indeed exemplary biographer-- ] has written as wonderfully comprehensive and comprehending a biography as anyone interested in Pound-for or against-will want to have.
*Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal*

A landmark three volume biography / David Moody's life of Ezra Pound is complete, and a splendid work it is
*Irish Times*

Ezra Pound: Poet will surely stand for a long time as one of the great literary biographies; it is inconceivable to imagine that any other life of its subject will be necessary into the far future.
*Bruce Whiteman, Hudson Review*

a brilliant performance..Moody's is by far the best researched, keenly judged, and in every sense comprehensive life of Pound we are ever likely to get. Altogether it is a crowning achievement for a very distinguished critic and scholar.
*Alec Marsh, Make It New*

attention to nuance characterises Moody's general approach to writing Pound's life...[and] extends to readings of Pound's poetry...His monumental biography is...judicious and scrupulous
*Matthew Creasey, PN Review*

The final volume of A. David Moody's monumental biography may well be the most absorbing. Here, in vivid detail, Moody tells the painful story ... much new or previously unknown archival material ... the most authoritative biography to date.
*Marjorie Perloff, Times Literary Supplement*

David Moody's magnificent accomplishment commands respect. His scholarship and criticism are exhaustive and these three volumes will be indispenable to all future Ezra Pound research.
*Tim Redman, Literary Review*

It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive or impressive biography of Pound will ever be written.
*Publishers Weekly*

The third volume is a magnificent conclusion to a magisterial biography and it's hard to imagine a better researched account of Pound's life and work emerging for generations to come.
*Irish Left Review*

Moody has succeeded in bringing Pound to life and highlighting the vitality of his poetry. He gives modern readers an understanding of just how brilliant the dangerous, deluded and fascinating Ezra Pound was.
*Spiked*

... attention to nuance characterises Moody's general approach to writing Pound's life ... [and] extends to readings of Pound's poetry ... His monumental biography is ... judicious and scrupulous.
*PN Review*

It is a monumental feat of scholarship, and one which must surely be seen as an exemplar of modern critical biography.
*Shiny New Books*