ellauri160.html on line 182: Samuel Putnam knew Pound in Paris in the 1920s and described him as stubborn, contrary, cantankerous, bossy, touchy, and "devoid of humor"; he was "an American small-towner", in Putnam's view. His attitude caused him trouble in both London and Paris. English women, with their "preponderantly derivative" minds, were inferior to American women who had minds of their own, he wrote in the New Age. The English sense of what was right was based on respect for property, not morality. "Perched on the rotten shell of a crumbling empire", London had lost its energy. England's best authors—Conrad, Hudson, James, and Yeats—were not English. English writers and critics were ignorant, he wrote in 1913.
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 819: Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Kuules jäbä se on Pallas, eikä mikään lintuallas!
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 820: Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Istui vaan, se olio.
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