Artists of the Right by Kerry Bolton

Author:Kerry Bolton
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781935965138
Publisher: Counter-Currents Publishing
Published: 2012-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

He was transferred to a medical facility and lived in a small tent. “Despite his extraordinary predicament, Pound’s native spirit soon returned and he was writing his new Cantos.”[328]

In November 1945, he was flown to Washington and jailed. While Hemingway, et al. had planned to have Pound declared “insane” to avoid treason charges, the conditions he had been subjected to had in fact caused him to mentally and physically break down, and by the time he reached Washington his lawyer, Julien Cornell, described Pound as being “in a rather desperate condition.”[329] On December 21 he was sent to St. Elizabeths mental hospital. Again, conditions were atrocious. The ward was for the criminally insane, and “reeked of sweat and urine.” He lived in fear of the other inmates. On February 13, 1946, formal hearings declared him to be of unsound mind, and was kept at St. Elizabeths for eleven years.[330] Here his literary output continued, and he translated 300 traditional Chinese poems that were published by Harvard University Press in 1954.[331] He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the “Pisan Cantos,” the award causing uproar amidst accusations of “Fascist infiltrators,” but scholarly interest in Pound increased widely.[332] Others tried to consign him to oblivion.[333]

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