Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind…perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without…the refreshment, the revitalization and `making new' of literature in our time.

Eliot wrote in his introduction: I hope that this volume will demonstrate that Pound's literary criticism is the most important contemporary criticism of its kind…perhaps the kind we can least afford to do without…the refreshment, the revitalization and `making new' of literature in our time.