In his impressive elucidation of the Old English verse features which Pound carries through to his 'Saxonist prosody', Jones makes a hefty, lasting contribution to our enjoyment of parts of Pound's sharply sensory, taut and restrained free verse... [Jones's book] is erudite and deeply informed, drawing on years of research and reflection... intellectually convincing, while most valuable, perhaps, for its astute and responsive treatment of particular poems. Strange Likeness has stimulated my own search for finds: among the four major poets Jones looks at closely, in the books of those he glances at in passing, and among those younger generations to whom Pound, Auden, Morgan and Heaney hand on both models to follow and spurs to creativity.