‘That Great Year Epic’: Ezra Pound, Katherine Ruth Heyman and H. D.

Even though critics of modern poetry are beginning to recognise that Ezra Pound worked in the same esoteric tradition as W. B. Yeats, current scholarly comment on Pound’s relation to the occult is virtually nonexistent.1 Given the emphasis placed by Yeats scholars on the renewed interest with which Yeats was pursuing his occult studies and experiments during the early period of his association with Pound (1909–16), it is surprising to find that most Pound scholars have sought to isolate Pound’s work from any taint of occult influence, ignoring this aspect of his life.