SOURCE: "Allen Upward and Ezra Pound," in Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring, 1974, pp. 71-83.

In the following excerpt, Knox offers an account of ideas shared between Pound and Upward, and lists the five references to Upward in Pound's Cantos.

Allen Upward (1863-1926) was a personal friend of Jerome K. Jerome and contributed to Jerome's Idler. He knew James Whistler and corresponded with Theodor Mommsen and Lloyd George; received letters from Augustus John; wrote to Samuel Clemens and T. H. Huxley for a brief time; and corresponded with the Sultan of Turkey and the Crown Prince of Greece. He came to know Gilbert Murray through the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain of which both men were members. He was also a corresponding member of the Parnassus Philological Society, Athens. He was a good friend of G.R.S. Mead, editor of The...