ABSTRACT
Pound wrote to Iris Barry in May 1916, recounting his publisher’s attempt at a last-minute censorship of his forthcoming Lustra (The Letters of Ezra Pound, ed. D.D.Paige, 1951, p. 130).
[Pound remarks that ‘the Lawrence fuss’ has put publishers in a panic, so that Elkin Mathews had Lustra set up and then marked twenty-five poems for deletion. He adds a postscript.]
P.S.Elkin Mathews…called in Yeats to mediate and Yeats quoted Donne at him for his soul’s good. I don’t know what will come of it.
