The Little Review (1918):

W.B. Yeats and the Sculpture of Brancusi

“…27 The growing popularity of modern European sculptors working from the model, such as the Croatian sculptor and architect Ivan Meštrović, could be dismissed with recourse to the legacy of Gaudier-Brzeska and the continuing work of Brancusi: "no one who understood Gaudier was fooled by the cheap Viennese Michaelangelism and rhetoric of Mestrovic. " 28 The echo of evangelism in Pound's coinage bundles Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, and Meštrović together as second-rate disciples of Michaelangelo and his teachings. Brancusi and Gaudier-Brzeska represent a purer language of sculpture beyond the cheap rhetoric of sculptors working from the model.…”

“…Constantin Brancusi was the subject of several articles and letters by Pound from 1919-22, most significantly the autumn 1921 issue of the Little Review, which featured twenty-four photographs of Brancusi's sculpture and studio. 35 His introductory 'Brancusi' (1921) essay was the first substantive essay on the Romanian sculptor to appear in English, and Rebecca Beasley notes that it is one of Pound's most important and influential writings on art. 36 In terms of sculptural aesthetics, Alex Potts has described the essay as "the most important early apologia for Brancusi's work. "…”