Several readers have complained about the earlier emailer. An example:

Your reader is way overblown – Mark Twain and Ezra Pound are hardly “all but erased” – they’re central to the literary canon. It certainly would be legitimate to consider Pound’s politics in connection with some of his work from the WWII period, as it would be to consider Pinter’s recent advocacy when evaluating more recent works from him. Your reader needs to get a grip.