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Ripostes by R. A. F. to Germany's air blows were delivered incessantly upon military, industrial and communications centres all across Naziland to Berlin, northeast to Bergen and Stavanger.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ripostes" belongs to the period when Mr. Pound was being attacked because of his propaganda.

From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

After "Ripostes," Mr. Pound's idiom has advanced still farther.

From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

But we can notice in "Ripostes" other evidences than of versatility only; certain poems show Mr. Pound turning to more modern subjects, as in the "Portrait d'une femme," or the mordant epigram, "An Object."

From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

In "Ripostes" there are traces of a different idiom.

From Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)