Without Lifting A Finger

Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer ( / ˈ h ɛ f ər / HEF -ər ); [1] 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review , were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, [2] The Observer ′s "100 Greatest Novels of All Time", [3] and The Guardian ′s "1000 novels everyone must read." [Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Madox_Ford ]

I have a collection of Pound's earlier poems, including the translations, and so I downloaded the whole of Cathay ($0.99) to reacquaint myself with the poems. (I don't believe all of the poems were in the volume I read so many years ago.) Are they as monumental as Eliot makes them out to be? Well, he's the expert, not me. * The Beautiful Toilet Blue, blue is the grass     about the river And the willows have     overfilled the close     garden. And within, the mistress,     in the midmost     of her youth. White, white of face,     hesitates, passing     the door. Slender, she puts forth     a slender hand, And she was a courtesan in the old days, And she has married     a sot, Who now goes drunken- ly out And leaves her too     much alone.         ...