Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In November 1915, after Joyce
's novel had been rejected by various publishers, HSW
offered to publish it. But it was difficult for her to find a printer who was not frightened by the prospect...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
McAlmon hosted a dinner party which Weaver attended together with Djuna Barnes
, William Bird
, sculptor Thelma Wood
, and Ezra Pound
, who mortified her by teasing her, quite without justification, about her...
Textual Production
Harriet Shaw Weaver
The important literary magazine The Egoist passed into HSW
's editorship from 15 June 1914; she agreed to take on this post partly in order to limit the influence that Ezra Pound
, with his...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fay Weldon
During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman),
Hepburn, James, and Anna Wickham. “Preface”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith and Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, p. xix - xxiii.
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A brief encounter with Ezra Pound
inspired the poem Song to Amidon.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
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Wickham also had a long-lasting friendship with Nina Hamnett
.
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Wickham
Several poems in this collection are self-reflexive, taking poetic form itself as their subject. In The Egoist (a poem which shares its title with Dora Marsden
's journal The Egoist, associated with Pound
and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anna Wickham
This collection represents a significant departure from AW
's earlier work in its adoption of literary conventions. Peopled with jesters, knights, witches, and shepherdesses, the poems in this volume incorporate historical (Anglo-Saxon and Elizabethan), mythological...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Virginia Woolf
Yet, though her voice (and her social and political views) were and would remain quite different from theirs, she was keenly attentive to the works of male contemporaries who were, like her, working to create...
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
W. B. Yeats
Within a few months of proposing marriage to Maud Gonne
's daughter Iseult
(as he had formerly proposed to to Gonne herself) WBY
married (on 20 October 1917, at the age of fifty-two) Georgie Hyde-Lees
Textual Production
W. B. Yeats
His friend Ezra Pound
introduced Yeats to the Noh theatre, which exerted an influence on many of his later plays.
