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.
Yeats
noted that by including Joyce here KT
had helped launch his career: It has led to the publication of some of Joyce's fiction in a little London paper called the Egotist [sic] over which...
Textual Features
Anne Stevenson
In the title-poem, each of five stanzas ends with a version of the first closing lines: we thought we were living now, / but we were living then.
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
128
These we, it seems, are...
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...
Textual Production
May Sinclair
Four months later the same journal (which had already carried her article on Ezra Pound
) printed her review essay on Richard Aldington
's poetry.
Textual Features
May Sinclair
The piece on Flint links him with T. S. Eliot
by using terms similar to those which Sinclair had used in reviewing The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, praising him as a modern...
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
97
She was delighted with Thomas Hardy
, with whom she went cycling in Dorset in...
death
May Sinclair
She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
155
In a will made almost thirty years before she died...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
May Sinclair
According to biographer Suzanne Raitt
, MS
sometimes used aspects of her own experience in her stories. The Pin-Prick, 1915, about a young woman so sensitive that she kills herself in response to a...
Textual Production
May Sinclair
Ezra Pound
, seeking to obtain a hearing for Eliot's difficult new poetry, saw MS
as a valuable and unusual spokesperson from the former generation.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
199
Literary responses
May Sinclair
Pound
thought the review very nobly done.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
201
Textual Features
Carol Shields
The four voices belong to academic critic Sarah Maloney, who came on the booklet of Swann's poems at a borrowed summer cottage, felt an astonished sense of discovery and sympathy, published the earliest criticism of...
Friends, Associates
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS
renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden
, Arthur Waugh
, H. G. Wells
,...
Textual Features
Laura Riding
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has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound
still believed that the movement...
Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage.
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Rich enjoyed her time at Radcliffe, though...
Literary responses
Jean Rhys
Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...
