as the name implies, it's not quite the usual approach to an introductory text, but it's still definitely for the student; i'm sure this book would be useless to a Pound expert.

most importantly, it presents an alternative approach WITHOUT (usually) catching the Pound Bug, i.e. lapsing into his anti-logic and idiosyncratic voice, which so many other not-quite-scholars did at the time.

Brooke-Rose fully admits that she puts you in medias res, but it's fully calculated..... whereas Pound does it blusteringly and unintentionally, because he infamously couldn't explain things, he could only re-explain, as if you heard it already but were too stupid to get it.

instead of becoming the victim of an unprovoked attack, i usually just felt swept along in Brooke-Rose's enthusiasm, which is rare to find in Pound criticism without accompaniment by excessive apology or defensiveness. ( )