Pound

In the world of art, a world which stems a tide and catches the fire and beauty of any given time, it is hard to beat the early 20^th century for its spirit of intense collaboration resulting in breakthroughs of form and meaning:  Brancusi in sculpture, Picasso in painting and Pound in literature.  

Pound collaborated with everybody – Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, W.C. Williams, Hilda Doolittle, F.M. Ford and so on.  His real goal in life was to meet interesting people.  Pound was a revolutionary and he never stopped creating his revolution which filled him with ridiculous generalities and obscure references that only a loving biographer would bother to understand.  Pound the great giver, an inspiration for so many others, became impaled on his own petard isolated by a dream of the glorious past.