Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pound was a persistent letter writer no matter where he was. From Wabash College in Indiana to the Disciplinary Training Center in Pisa or St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, he wrote to defend, cajole, instruct, and inspire. He wrote to writers, students, senators, publishers, newspapers, critics, friends, and enemies. His letters were guides, manifestoes, reports, and political statements. They agitated, praised, complained, and celebrated cultural follies, historical achievements, and individual works. They were never dull. Disciples and presidents, girlfriends and professors were his recipients. His first publication was a letter in the form of a poem to the Jenkintown, PA Times Chronicle in 1902. Nearly his last were letters written almost up to his death to William Cookson, editor of Agenda . Many letters were literary in their focus. To Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry , for example, he would often complain, criticize, and occasionally compliment her selections, while also demanding that she print new poets like Frost and Eliot. To William Carlos Williams, he praised his work, but urged him to get out of New Jersey and over to Europe. To Margaret Cravens, he wrote personal letters expressing his appreciation of her support. But his letters also became a platform for his more controversial and extreme views. Though ignoring the often objectionable gradations of ideologies and beliefs held by Pound in the late 1920s and beyond is no longer tenable for critics and/or readers, it would be easier (though not defensible) to rationalize them or minimize their potency were one to be concerned only with the poetry or even only with the poetry and criticism. Attempts to defend or ignore Pound’s transgressions become absurd in the face of certain of his letters, especially given the fact that in many of them he offers opinions and views that are more clearly expressed and more raw and frank, even if they are not different in import, from the same opinions as these are depicted in his essays and poetry.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.347 | 0.260 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".