1. See Thomas Parkinson, ‘Yeats and Pound: The Illusion of Influence’, Comparative Literature, VI. 3 (Summer 1954) 256–64; Richard Ellmann, ‘Ez and Old Billyum’, in New Approaches to Ezra Pound, ed. Eva Hesse (1969) 55– 85; K. L. Goodwin, The Influence of Ezra Pound (1966) 75–105; N. Christoph de Nagy, The Poetry of Ezra Pound: The Pre-Imagist Stage (Bern, 1960); Thomas H. Jackson, The Early Poetry of Ezra Pound (Cambridge, Mass., 1968). For a different approach see Herbert N. Schneidau, ‘Pound and Yeats: The Question of Symbolism’, ELH, XXXII (1965) 220–37.
2. Pound: Early Poems, 313; Selected Prose, 116; Early Poems, 269–72, 209.
3. Yeats: Uncollected Prose, I, 187; Letters, 63, 106.
4. See Pound, ‘Hilda’s Book’, in Hilda Doolittle, End to Tormeiǹt: A Memoir of
5. Ezra Pound, ed. Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King (New York, 1979) 73–4, 83, 84.