“When Ezra Pound allowed a stranded actress to spend the night in his room, the resulting scandal caused him to leave his teaching post after only four months, “all accusations”, he later claimed, “having been ultimately refuted except that of being ‘the Latin Quarter type.’”

Ezra Pound, Wikipedia

Untermeyer, Louis, Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry: Combined New and Enlarged Edition (Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962) p. 286

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