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In 1958, Pound was declared incurably insane and permanently incapable of standing trial.

Consequent on this, he was released from St Elizabeth's on condition that he return to Europe, which he promptly did.

At first, he lived with his daughter Mary in Tyrol, but soon returned to Rapallo.

In November 1959, Pound wrote to his publisher James Laughlin ( speaking in the third person ) that he " has forgotten what or which politics he ever had.

Certainly has none now ".

His crisis of belief, together with the effects of aging, meant that the proposed paradise cantos were slow in coming and turned out to be radically different from anything the poet had envisaged.