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Pound's Four Pages : “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda

Marius Hentea

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Abstract This essay examines Ezra Pound's behind-the-scenes control of the little review Four Pages , which ran for fifteen issues from 1948 to 1951. After his return to the United States in 1945 to face charges of treason, Pound was declared mentally incompetent and institutionalized in a mental hospital in the nation's capital. With his publishers attempting to rehabilitate Pound's public standing by spotlighting his purely “literary” efforts, Pound had to resort to anonymous publication to continue to have a say on contemporary matters. This essay shows how Pound essentially created and edited a little review to have a venue that pushed his social and political ideas at a time when doing so openly was problematic for legal and political reasons. The use of anonymity as a writer and editor was part of the wider “literary camouflage” that Four Pages engaged in to advance Pound's wider cultural and political agenda.

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hal-04431930 , version 1 (01-02-2024)

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Marius Hentea. Pound's Four Pages : “Literary Camouflage” and Postwar Anonymous Propaganda. PMLA, 2022, 137 (3), pp.424-441. ⟨10.1632/S0030812922000323⟩. ⟨hal-04431930⟩
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