That Yeats is the last Romantic whereas Pound a Romantic at first constitutes what this paper is about: what I mean is, Yeats as Romantic transforms himself and Pound overcomes romanticism inherent in him. To become a poet Ezra Pound first reached for William Butler Yeats; became a patron; then overcoming Romantic poetry, became an equal with Yeats. Yeats’s evaluation of Pound is ambiguous, reserving his last judgment. In his “Introduction” to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and in his “A Packet for Ezra Pound” in his A Vision (1937) Yeats conceals his judgment of Pound. But it is in fact his indirect yet highest praise for Ezra. I would like to see how so different poetic temperaments enrich each other. I enlist K.K. Ruthven, T.S. Eliot, John Berryman for unraveling the two poetries intermingled.

• Young Suck Rhee(Distinguished Professor of Poetry, Department of English, Hanyang, University) | 이영석