Ezra Pound Radio #33 (May 4, 1942) “Universality“

#33 (May 4, 1942) U.S.(B38) “Universality“ “The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound’s broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been effected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are.“ - Foreword “Pound wrote these scripts; they are part of his legacy. He is so important in American and British literature of the twentieth century that whatever he wrote cannot be ignored. The speeches, more over, are valuable from a historical standpoint: they reveal what one man, broadcasting from an enemy radio station during World War II, believed his countrymen should hear. On the basis of what he said, moreover, Pound was arrested and accused of treason; he spent 13 years in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (a government institution for the criminally insane in Washington, D.C.) as a result.“ - Introduction