Today it may look strange to liken Ezra Pound to half-forgotten American poet and writer George Sylvester Viereck (1884 –1962) as literary figures, but contemporary critics compared them. Pound never met Viereck in person, but their roads crossed more than once for several decades. In the 1910s William Marion Reedy known as “literary boss of Midwest” published poems by both Viereck and Pound in his weekly The Mirror. In 1928 they both refused to sign a group protest against Samuel Roth who printed fragments of James Joyce’s Ulysses in his magazine Two Worlds Monthly. During the World War II Pound broadcasted over Fascist Rome Radio, after it he was arrested for treason and sentenced to death but lately admitted to a psychiatric clinic for life. Before the USA entry into war Viereck cooperated with pro-Nazi propagandists, in 1942 he was convicted and imprisoned up to 1947. After the war Viereck befriended many right-wing political activists without accepting their views. One of them was Eustace Mullins who worked for Pound’s liberation. Viereck wrote in 1952, “As to Ezra Pound, he is an important literary figure, but he travels along erratic paths. I do not pretend to understand him, especially in his present phase. But I am against caging nightingales, even if the nightingale is naughty. And after all, he is a poet”. This article includes the first publication of Pound’s greetings to Viereck on his 70th birthday (autograph in the author’s collection).