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.
Regarding the influence on each other of Imagism and Marsden's egoism, Andrew Thacker
notes their shared emphases (from Bergson
) on the weaknesses of abstract rhetoric in art and politics, and their valuing of intuition...
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Dora Marsden
This journal had an auspicious beginning: Marsden announced in January that it would serialize James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marsden played an important role in Joyce's early...
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Dora Marsden
But DM
's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing...
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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...
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Dora Marsden
Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM
's papers are now at Princeton University
. Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West
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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.
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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...
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Phyllis Bottome
After meeting Ezra Pound
this year, PB
at once wrote The Liqueur Glass, which she felt to be one of her best short stories, and finished The Captive (published by May 1915) which she...
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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.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press.
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W. B. Yeats
His friend Ezra Pound
introduced Yeats to the Noh theatre, which exerted an influence on many of his later plays.
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Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL
had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge
(through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
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Christine Brooke-Rose
Here she examines Stephen Crane
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ezra Pound
, and W. H. Auden
, as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism.