Mary de rachewiltz biography definition

Ezra Pound's daughter Mary is one of his greatest admirers. As a young child she was his darling; when she was older she became his student; now, at 46, she shows in her autobiography that she is almost as devoted to Pound's work as she is to the poet himself.

In one way, Discretions is the recounting of an education given by a great man through precept and example to his daughter.

A bastard child, Mary is the daughter of Pound and the American violinist Olga Rudge who, after two years of living with Pound, supplanted his legal wife, Dorothy Shakespear.

Pound is known as the great mover and teacher of the "modern" poets, and he's remembered as the anti-Semitic "reactionary" who hoped to sell America Fascism over the Italian radio.

His daughter sees him most clearly not as the artist or the political man, but as a sage so heroically proportioned that he could deal on an immediate personal level with anyone. He was able to order his life consciously,