ABSTRACT
In a letter to the editor in January 1970 Glenway Wescott recalled that he first read Pound in 1921: 'In the Spring of 1921, Miss Monroe employed me for a while as the magazine's [i.e., Poetry's] office boy. All of us at the University [of Chicago], even Yvor Winters, who was my close friend in those years, respected Pound as a poet; [I] yielded enthusiastically to his every critical recommendation; [and] read everything that seemed to him important.' When Wescott met Pound in Paris in 1925, his respect was 'undermined a little by my having realized the bias and limitation of his understanding of French literature'.
