Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry

As the chief poems in A Lume Spento were afterwards incorporated in Personae, the book demands mention only as a date in the author’s history. Personae, the first book published in London, followed early in 1909. Few poets have undertaken the siege of London with so little backing; few books of verse have ever owed their success so purely to their own merits. Pound came to London a complete stranger, without either literary patronage or financial means. He took Personae to Mr. Elkin Mathews, who has the glory of having published Yeats’ Wind Among the Reeds, and the Books of the Rhymers’ Club, in which many of the poets of the ‘90s, now famous, found a place.