Ezra Pound, Well Known Author, to Read Poems Here

Ezra Pound, probably America's best known literary ex-patriate, will read this afternoon from his unpublished Cantos to an audience in Sever 11 at 4:30 o'clock.

The eminent poet and critic, who has not been in this country since 1911, arrived recently and is staying in Cambridge for a few days with Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English.

He will read as many of his unpublished Cantos as the hour lecture will permit him to, beginning with the fiftieth. He has with him, in the series which is finally expected to include 100, the poems numbered from 50 to 71.

Ideas On Education

Pound has definite ideas on education, economics, politics and American history, besides his concern with literature. In his recent book "Culture" he said, among other things, "A great many 'scholars' are as helpless as isolated mechanics wd. be were each possessed of some spare part, screw, die, ever, cog, of a huge 'machine."

In another place he asks "Are the categories hitherto used in, let us say, University teaching, in our times, and our fathers', really serviceable? Does any really good mind ever get a kick out of studying stuff that has been put into water-tight compartments and hermetically sealed?"

He sees "19th century philology" as harming scholarship by "burying the young student in 'research' before he knew what he was after. He was to dig it out (blind, ham-strung, as blacks in a diamond mine)."