ABSTRACT
Mencken, writing to Untermeyer on 20 May 1918, approved: 'Your piece on Pound is capital. I have a feeling that you are right about him. . . .' On August 30 he mentioned this review again: 'I feel you are right about Pound. He has gone the Dreiser route. Puritan pressure has him into a mere bellower. There is a lesson in this for all of us' (Letters of H. L. Mencken, edited by Guy J. Forgue (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961), pp. 123,127). For Mencken's fears about Dreiser, see his essay 'The Dreiser Bugaboo' in the Seven Arts (August 1917).
