Ezra Pound: Poet

A. Banerjee (Kobe Jogakuin University), The Journal Moody explains and elucidates Pounds massive poetic output at length... subtitled The Tragic Years 19391972. It gives a detailed and moving account of the second half his life, which was indeed tragic.

David Crook, Bookwitty Its almost a day-to-day account of the life of this prolific and erudite writer and scholar. As such, it illuminates and validates the poetry.

Denis Donoghue, Irish Times A landmark three volume biography...David Moody's life of Ezra Pound is complete, and a splendid work it is.

Eric Ormsby, New Criterion magisterial...a masterful biography, as meticulous as its is broad-ranging.

Sean Sheehan, Irish Left Review The third volume is a magnificent conclusion to a magisterial biography and it's hard to imagine a better researched account of Pound's life and work emerging for generations to come.

Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal With this final volume, aptly subtitled "The Tragic Years," Mr. Moody [ -- a sympathetic and indeed exemplary biographer-- ] has written as wonderfully comprehensive and comprehending a biography as anyone interested in Pound-for or against-will want to have.

Irish Times A landmark three volume biography / David Moody's life of Ezra Pound is complete, and a splendid work it is

Bruce Whiteman, Hudson Review Ezra Pound: Poet will surely stand for a long time as one of the great literary biographies; it is inconceivable to imagine that any other life of its subject will be necessary into the far future.

Alec Marsh, Make It New a brilliant performance..Moody's is by far the best researched, keenly judged, and in every sense comprehensive life of Pound we are ever likely to get. Altogether it is a crowning achievement for a very distinguished critic and scholar.

Matthew Creasey, PN Review attention to nuance characterises Moody's general approach to writing Pound's life...[and] extends to readings of Pound's poetry...His monumental biography is...judicious and scrupulous

Marjorie Perloff, Times Literary Supplement The final volume of A. David Moody's monumental biography may well be the most absorbing. Here, in vivid detail, Moody tells the painful story ... much new or previously unknown archival material ... the most authoritative biography to date.

Tim Redman, Literary Review David Moody's magnificent accomplishment commands respect. His scholarship and criticism are exhaustive and these three volumes will be indispenable to all future Ezra Pound research.

Publishers Weekly It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive or impressive biography of Pound will ever be written.

Irish Left Review The third volume is a magnificent conclusion to a magisterial biography and it's hard to imagine a better researched account of Pound's life and work emerging for generations to come.

Spiked Moody has succeeded in bringing Pound to life and highlighting the vitality of his poet...

A. David Moody is a Professor Emeritus of the University of York, and the author of the acclaimed Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet (Cambridge University Press: 1979, 1994).