has to be Ezra Pound's, who wrote to his friend Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago: 'I think you may as well give this poor devil a show. . . .He has something in him, horribly rough but then "Stepney, East". . . . We ought to have a real burglar . . . ma che!!!' And yet if anyone might have been expected to understand [Isaac] Rosenberg by 1915, when these words were written, it was Pound, or his fellow innovator T.S. Eliot, with whom Rosenberg has sometimes been compared. For Rosenberg was a Modernist before his time, something of an exception among First World War poets, and not only with regard to his technique. from The Wall Street Journal: 'Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet'
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