ABSTRACT
Ezra Pound first applauded Adrian Stokes as "the rising Stokes" after seeing a copy of his book, Sunrise in the West, with a copy of a marble low relief from the Tempio in Rimini on its cover. "Has a Rimini plaque on his wrapper and a great many mixed metaphors inside it; but it is not pifflingly frivolous," Pound told his mistress, Olga Rudge, from Rapallo, soon after seeing the book in early January 1927. Malatestiana library in Cesena into the life and times of Sigismondo. He also persuaded the reluctant Ernest Hemingway and his wife to join himself and his wife, Dorothy Pound, on a tour in early 1923 of sites associated with Sigismondo's military exploits, after which T. S. Eliot published four of Pound's Malatesta Cantos in The Criterion that July. The flagrant anti-Semitism of Stokes's resulting article, despite being Jewish himself, contributed, perhaps, to it seldom, if ever, being republished.
