The American roots of Ezra Pound

The wilds of Idaho and the legend of Thaddeus Coleman Pound

The warm little world of Uncle Ezra Weston

Ma Weston's children's hour: the Wadsworths and all that

Growing up around Philadelphia

Aunt Frank and the world at large

Penn and the apparition of a dryad

Enter "Bill" Williams, rival and friend

Hamilton and the evolution of a dream

Penn again and Europe

A troubled winter, and idyllic summer: Aunt Frank and Mary Moore

The Crawfordsville incident

Eastward ho!

Venice and A lume spento

Coda: hails and farewells: 1911 ... 1939 ... 1958.