Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
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Ezra Pound
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Standard Name: Pound, Ezra
EP
, 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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Wyndham Lewis | He examines the work of Gertrude Stein
(whom he counsels to get out of english) and popular writer Anita Loos
(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), as well as Bergson
, Einstein
, Pound
, Joyce
, and others. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often... |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | |
| Leisure and Society | Philip Larkin | |
| Literary responses | James Joyce | T. S. Eliot
praised the book in the Athenæum for 4 July 1919; Ezra Pound
wrote to Joyce that Bloom is a great man; Virginia Woolf
wrote in her diary that the book reeled... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | VH
entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D.
, D. H. Lawrence
, Ezra Pound
, Joseph Conrad
, Wyndham Lewis
, Walter de la Mare
... |
| Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | Among les jeunes at VH
's home was Vorticist artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
, whose well-known phallic sculpture, Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, being too heavy to be moved to exhibitions, was left for a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations... |
| Friends, Associates | H. D. | In addition to Pound
and her classmate Marianne Moore
, HD's friends from her teenage years in Pennsylvania included another poet, William Carlos Williams
. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 10 |
| Travel | H. D. | HD made two trips through France and Italy before 1913 with Richard Aldington
, whom she later married. Ezra Pound
went with them on one of these occasions. |
| Friends, Associates | H. D. | After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,... |
| Friends, Associates | H. D. | HD's estrangement from Pound
continued for years after the end of the Second World War. Then, despite the disapproval of friends such as Bryher
and Sylvia Beach
, she renewed contact with him in 1960... |
| Health | H. D. | HD was referred to Freud by her previous therapist, Hanns Sachs
. Before agreeing to take her on as a patient and student, Freud read her writings, as well as those of D. H. Lawrence |
| Cultural formation | H. D. | HD's interest in spiritualism is perhaps traceable to her Moravian background as well as to the yogi books given to her by Ezra Pound
when she was a teenager. During the Second World War she... |
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