Summary of Jefferson Morley's The Ghost EPUB

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#1 In 1938, Jim Angleton met the expatriate American poet Ezra Pound. He knew of Pound’s interest in economics, and he was impressed by his political writings as well as his poetry.

#2 Angleton’s childhood was shaped by his parents’ ambition for him. He had lived in three countries by the time he graduated from Yale in 1937, and he had spent summers with his family in Milan. He was an outdoorsman with a refined taste in poetry.

#3 Pound was a great admirer of Angleton, and he was looking for wisdom. He wanted to find coherence in the world, and Pound’s mythic poetry offered a place where he could speak a higher language.

#4 Angleton took a room at 312 Temple Street with his best friend from freshman year, another aspiring poet named Reed Whittemore. Whittemore had led a more prosaic childhood as a doctor’s son in New Haven. He recommended T. S. Eliot’s poem Gerontion to his roommate, and Angleton loved it.