Probably the Two Greatest Poets of the Twentieth Century

I often think of W.H. Auden

and Ezra Pound.

About Pound, 'Hemingway wrote of him in 1925: "He defends [his friends] when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. ... He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide."^'

He mentored, nurtured and influenced other writers until WWII when, like a lot of other folks, he went sort of around-the-bend crazy. I believe he wound up on the right side of the ticket, ruined nonetheless. But his poems are probably immortal.

Of Auden, what can anyone say? "Musee des Beaux Arts." "September 1, 1939." "Time Will Say Nothing But I Told You So." "Herman Melville."