Ezra Pound was instrumental in getting Waley's first translations into print in "The Little Review". His view of Waley's early work was mixed, however. As he wrote to Margaret Anderson, the editor of the "Little Review", in a letter of 2 July 1917: "Have at last got hold of Waley's translations from Po chu I. Some of the poems are magnificent. Nearly all the translations marred by his bungling English and defective rhythm. ... I shall try to buy the best ones, and to get him to remove some of the botched places. (He is stubborn as a donkey, or a "scholar".)" In his introduction to his translation of "The Way and its Power" Waley explains that he was careful to put meaning above style in translations where meaning would be reasonably considered of more importance to the modern western reader.