Ebook: Ezra Pound: poet: a portrait of the man and his work. Volume III, The tragic years, 1939-1972

"This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound opens at the outbreak of the Second World War. A tragic time for Europe and the world, the middle years of the twentieth century saw great personal tragedy for Pound. After blaming the Jewish race for the outbreak of the war and supporting Fascist Italy's role throughout, he was charged with treason and condemned as an anti-Semite. Following months in a US detention camp, he was committed to an institution for the insane where he would spend twelve years of his life"--Dust jacket flap.;pt.1: 1939-1945 -- Between paradise & propaganda, 1939-40 -- A dutifully dissident exile, 1941 -- In a web of contradictions, 1942-3 -- 'To dream the republic', 1943-4 -- For the resurrection of Italy, 1944-5 -- pt.2: 1945 -- Talking to the FBI -- A prisoner in the eyes of others -- 'In the mind indestructible': 'The Pisan Cantos' -- pt.3: -- American justice: Giving his head -- Lunacy at St. Elizabeths -- The hearing -- The friends and enemies -- pt.4: St. Elizabeths, 1946-1958 -- A year in the hell hole -- Resilience, 1947-50: Histrionics ; 'a awful lot company' ; No release ; Thrown to wolves ; Courage against cowardice -- The life of the mind, 1950-5: The shirt of Nessus ; Kindergarten ; La Martinelli ; Adult conversation ; Agenda, etc. ; Not licked, merely caged ; 'I want OUT': a log of pleas and petitions ; Writing and reading ; The St. Elizabeths Cantos (I): 'Section: rock-drill. 85-95 de los cantares ; Intimate relations -- 'Indictment dismissed', 1956-8: The tale of John Kasper ; The skeleton in the national closet ; 'M'Amour, ma vie' ; The St, Elizabeths Cantos (2): 'Thrones, 96-109 de los canteres' ; MacLeish gets his 'nol pros' -- Clearing out -- pt.5: 1958-1972 -- A final testament, 1958-9 -- 'You find me in fragments', 1959-62 -- His sickness & his wealth, 1962-4: Mainly clinical ; The committee's agenda -- Afterlife of the poet, 1965-72 -- Appendix: The settlement of the estate.