Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | H. D. | In autumn 1912 Hilda Doolittle
and her new friend Richard Aldington
together showed Ezra Pound
some of their collaborative translations from the Greek Anthology. |
| Literary responses | H. D. | Pound
was particularly impressed with HD's work in 1912. He dubbed her on the spot with her own initials as a nom de plume, identified her as the Imagist figurehead, and set out to get... |
| Literary responses | H. D. | Ezra Pound
dismissed HD's comment on Moore by saying that she could not write criticism. His own critique of Moore came two years later, and is often mentioned as if it had been the earliest... |
| Literary responses | H. D. | HD's prose fictions met with less critical success than the poetry which she had published hitherto. Their word-play, symbolic structures, and manipulation of myth were seen as arbitrary, as distractions from rather than as elements... |
| Textual Features | H. D. | This is war poetry which looks at the home front, like T. S. Eliot
's Four Quartets and Ezra Pound
's Pisan Cantos. It has been classified as epic. Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol. 2 , No. 2, 1 June–30 Nov. 1983, pp. 45-70. 45 |
| Textual Features | H. D. | Like the later End to Torment, this relates its author's attachments to and disaffection from Lawrence
and Pound
, her (tor)mentors. 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | H. D. | H. D.
and Ezra Pound
were introduced at a Hallowe'en party in Pennsylvania. Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 10 |
| politics | H. D. | H. D.
, a staunch anti-fascist, broke off contact with her long-time friend Ezra Pound
. Barbara Guest
, however, reads her as responding to personal behaviour rather than to Pound's support for fascism and anti-semitism. Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins, 1985. 247-9 Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 304 |
| Education | H. D. | HD withdrew from Bryn Mawr for health reasons after suffering an emotional breakdown. Other factors too may have played a part: she was in the midst of a turbulent relationship with Ezra Pound
and she... |
| Instructor | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
| Textual Production | Sir James George Frazer | The Golden Bough, a comparative study of human beliefs from the earliest times, had a major influence on modernist writings. SJGF
's text outlines an evolving belief system, which moves from magic, to religion... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
was editor of the first number of Prospect, a literary magazine published this winter at Cambridge University
. She used her editorship (continued until the fifth issue) to introduce an American avant-garde influenced... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | EF
wrote her first poems at play, while she bounced tennis balls against the garage door. When she showed one to a teacher and it appeared in the school magazine, she became hooked for life... |
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