ABSTRACT
October 1916, 226
Waugh (1866–1943), English critic, publisher and editor, was the author of ‘Reticence in Literature’ (1915) and of ‘Tradition and Change: Studies in Contemporary Literature’ (1919). He was the father of the novelists Alec and Evelyn Waugh. This is an extract from a longer piece and is concerned with the ‘Catholic Anthology 1914–1915’, edited by Pound and published by Elkin Mathews in 1915. The anthology contained ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, reprinted from ‘Poetry’ (June 1915), and other poems by Eliot. Pound's vigorous defence of Eliot against Waugh can be found in No. 2.
