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.
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...
Author summary
Florence Farr
FF
has received less attention for her own writing than for the role she played in men's: Shaw
and Yeats
created dramatic roles for her; Pound
wrote poetry about her; and she put into practice...
Literary responses
Florence Farr
Dorothy Shakespear
commented on the novel in a letter to Ezra Pound
: Such a Sargasso Sea muddle. Every body divorced several times, & in the end going back to their originals: & a young...
Fictionalization
Florence Farr
Ezra Pound
refers to FF
in Canto XXVIII as Loica (i.e. Shaw's Louka): So Loica went out and died there [Ceylon] / After her time in the post-Ibsen
movement.
Pound, Ezra. The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New Directions.
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Several critics believe Farr...
Publishing
T. S. Eliot
TSE
published at New York his first work of literary criticism, Ezra Pound
: His Metric and Poetry.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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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...
Literary responses
T. S. Eliot
In the month this volume was published, Pound
printed in The Egoist a rollicking article about the outrage Eliot's poetry was producing. Only genius, he wrote, not mere talent, infallibly evokes a torrent of elderly...
Intertextuality and Influence
T. S. Eliot
In 1971 the poet's widow, Valerie Eliot
, edited a facsimile and transcript of the original Waste Land drafts, which revealed among other things how much influence Pound
had exercised over the poem in its...
Literary responses
T. S. Eliot
During TSE
's last years he reaped a rich harvest of public honours, both in Britain and internationally. Since then his standing as leading poet of the modernist movement and dominant figure of twentieth-century English...
Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary...
Occupation
Nancy Cunard
Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink,
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's anti-fascist political convictions are centrally motivating throughout her productive life. In 1946 she wrote to Ezra Pound
: Your address was sent me by a person in England who had a letter from...
Textual Production
Nancy Cunard
The same company published Pound
and Eliot
(whose Prufrock is a pervasive presence in Cunard's first two collections). The title of this one strikes a note characteristic of her throughout her life. In later life...
Literary responses
Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan
, however, applies a withering pen to WC
in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
