The dean of a New York cathedral decided not to honor the poet Ezra Pound with a place in the cathedral’s Poets’ Corner because of Pound’s anti-Semitism. This month’s decision by the Rev. Harry Pritchett Jr., which overruled a vote by a group of prominent American writers, came after members of St. John’s the Divine threatened to protest if Pound was honored.
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