Sieburth, Richard. “Ezra Pound: Letters to Natalie Barney”. Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol.
5
, 1976, pp. 279-95. 287-8
Ezra Pound
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Standard Name: Pound, Ezra
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, American poet, critic, editor, translator, and key figure in the literary modernist movement, lived in London from 1908 to 1921, in Paris from 1921 to 1924, and then in Italy until the end of the Second World War. His vociferous, antisemitic support for Italian fascism earned him thirteen years in a US hospital for the criminally insane. He worked from 1917 until near the end of his life on his massive and generically multiple epic poem Cantos, which he published in serial fragments.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Natalie Clifford Barney | Ezra Pound
, a friend and regular visitor at the salon during and after the interwar years, collaborated with NCB
on a couple of unsuccessful literary ventures. |
| Occupation | Natalie Clifford Barney | A few years later, in 1925, Barney approached Pound
with her ideas for a new bilingual literary magazine, which she planned to edit with Sinclair Lewis
. |
| Occupation | Wyndham Lewis | WL
was an avant-garde painter and writer. His paintings were shown in the second Post-Impressionist exhibit, held in London in 1912, and for a time he worked with Roger Fry
and the Omega Workshops
... |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | The Egoist Press
went on to publish Dora Marsden's The Definition of the Godhead, Eliot
's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pound
's Dialogues of Fontenelle, Lewis
's Tarr,... |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | |
| Occupation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
| Occupation | Nancy Cunard | Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company, 1968. 69 |
| Occupation | Ford Madox Ford | After months of negotiation, FMF
and Ezra Pound
persuaded patron John Quinn
to finance the new review. Quinn, who was angry with James Joyce
over issues involving manuscripts, demanded that Joyce should be excluded from... |
| Occupation | Ford Madox Ford | Ernest Hemingway
was associate editor. The magazine published modernist writers including Djuna Barnes
, Jean Rhys
, Gertrude Stein
, William Carlos Williams
, Ezra Pound
, and e. e. cummings
. Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, 1986, p. various pages. 200 |
| Occupation | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
and Ezra Pound
formed Bel Esprit, a short-lived patronage scheme which Pound described as a sort of consumers' league to pay for quality rather than quantity in literature and the fine arts. qtd. in Sieburth, Richard. “Ezra Pound: Letters to Natalie Barney”. Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol. 5 , 1976, pp. 279-95. 286 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Christine Brooke-Rose | She began work on this book in 1964, but was not able to finish it for three years, until, while staying with Ezra Pound
's daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz
, in the Italian Tyrol... |
| Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | In the month this volume was published, Pound
printed in The Egoist a rollicking article about the outrage Eliot's poetry was producing. Only genius, he wrote, not mere talent, infallibly evokes a torrent of elderly... |
| Literary responses | Marianne Moore | Eliot
assessed her in his introduction as the greatest living master of light rhyme, and as one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime. qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Literary responses | May Sinclair | Pound
thought the review very nobly done. qtd. in Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 201 |
| Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | During TSE
's last years he reaped a rich harvest of public honours, both in Britain and internationally. Since then his standing as leading poet of the modernist movement and dominant figure of twentieth-century English... |
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