Three on the tower : the lives and works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams

Preface 8 I Ezra Pound, or Art 11 1 1908 13 2 Portrait of a Man With a Blue Earring 19 3 Gathering the Limbs of Osiris 28 4 II Miglior Fabbro 35 5 Into the Vortex 61 6 His True Penelope 74 7 Cloud’s Processional 93 II T S. Eliot, or Religion 101 8 The Author of Prufrock 103 9 “The horror! the horror!” 117 10 Mug’s Game 134 11 Margate Sands 145 12 Dreamcrossed Twilight 161 13 Prayers to Broken Stone 174 14 Sitting Still 189 Ill William Carlos Williams, or Experience 203 15 Mr. and Mrs. Williams 205 16 The Sensible Choice 220 17 A Proposal of Marriage 236 18 Modernity 252 19 Words and Their Intervals 270 20 River of Experience 290 21 Symbolic Lives 307 Afterword 325 Index 373 THREE,ON,THE,TOWER:,THE,LIVES,AND,WORKS,OF,EZRA,POUND