New York - Dogs and cats are welcome - there is even a place for elephants - but the world's biggest cathedral has banned Ezra Pound, one of the century's most divisive writers, from its poets' corner.
"Ultimately, it has to do with the relationship between art and the artist's own ethics and the broader community," said the Very Rev Harry Pritchett. "It is a question of developing an aesthetic theology."
Or, put another way, the author of the Cantos has been excluded from the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York because of his anti-semitic broadcasts from Italy during the second world war.
