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.
When PB
and Lislie
spent the winter in Rome, Ezra Pound
introduced Bottome to H. D.
.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company.
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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...
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arrived in Paris with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound
and James Joyce
, and she soon came into contact with a great number of the US expatriates living there at this time, including...
Friends, Associates
Marianne Moore
MMmade her modernist debut in New York in November 1915, meeting all the avant-garde.
Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 23, p. 19021.
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Her friendship with Ezra Pound
began by letter in 1918. She had already written a poem titled with his...
Friends, Associates
T. S. Eliot
London at this date was a heady place for a young poet to be, and this was as much because of the presence of Americans (like Ezra Pound
and Conrad Aiken
, both of whom...
Friends, Associates
Gertrude Stein
Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often...
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.
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Friends, Associates
Harriet Shaw Weaver
As editor, HSW
attempted to recruit Storm Jameson
for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D.
, whom she...
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...
Friends, Associates
Mary Butts
MB
met Ezra Pound
(accounts differ as to whether she had met him already). He not only became her close friend but also promoted her writing both before and after her death.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company.
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Friends, Associates
Dora Marsden
West became a regular contributor to The Freewoman and a prominent member of the London branch of the Freewoman Discussion Circle
. She also played central roles in the revival and transformation of The Freewoman...
