在这本教导式的书中,庞德遵循了“一切批评都是一种界说古典作家的尝试”。在希腊人中,庞德喜欢荷马和萨福,在罗马人中他喜欢卡图卢斯、奥维德和普洛佩提乌斯;而对于品达和维吉尔,庞德作出鲁莽而果断的否定。这种强调直觉的方式引起讲究逻辑性的教授们的不满,却给了艾略特、威廉斯为代表的同辈诗人极大的启示。 In this teaching book, Pound followed “All criticism is an attempt to define classical writers.” Among the Greeks, Pound loved Homer and Sappho, and among the Romans he liked Catullus, Ovid, and Ployethius; and for Pindar and Virgil, Pound made reckless and decisive Negation. This kind of intuition led to the logic of satirical grievances, but to Eliot, Williams, represented by his contemporaries poet greatly inspired.