By this tine things were going very fast. Yeats wanted Rabindranath to be elected as a member of newly formed Academic Council of Royal Society of Literature. To expedite the matter he was willing to send a copy to each of Henry New Bolt, Edmund Paus, Bernard Shaw to influence the members of the Society. But he had only one copy for him and he was not in a position to purchase copies for them. In a private discussion with Ezra Pound he expressed with grief but Pound with his usual sharp nature wrote Rothenstein which he sent to Yeats who replied among other things;
"The phrase about your having 'persuaded' me to do 'the introduction for nothing' is most exasperating. No one persuaded me. I was very proud of the opportunity of praising so great a poet. " Any way the aim of Yeats did not fulfil.Yeats, in his letter, wrote to Rothenstein ;
" He is a headlong ragged nature, is always hurting people's feelings, but he has I think some genius and great good will."
Under the influence of this pious will Pound engaged himself in propagating the genius of Rabindranath.
Pound was the London representative of the paper Poetry Edited by Harriet Monroe and published from Chicago. While Rabindranath was in London, he, with the permission of the poet, wrote an essay titled "Tagore's Poems"containing 6 poems from Gitanjali which was published on Dec 1912 in that paper. Being credited with this rare qualities he wrote to Harriet in excitement;
" This is the sop. Reserve space in the next number for Tagore.".
