Ezra Pound

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Standard Name: Pound, Ezra
EP , 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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Butts
Her accounts of her marriage were disingenuous in several respects. She described it as one of those War-marriages between very young people,
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company.
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which was hardly accurate when she was at the time twenty-seven. Rodker...
Literary responses Mary Butts
Although her work received mixed reviews, MB was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound , Marianne Moore
Residence Bryher
Shari Benstock explains that the very wealthy Bryher had been advised to move to Switzerland for tax purposes. But Benstock also suggests that Bryher's Swiss home became a creative refuge for her and H. D...
Literary responses Bryher
After reading the highly enthusiastic pamphlet, Lowell sent an appreciative message to Bryher, but expressed some (ultimately unfounded) concern about it in another letter to H. D. : the girl has insight and a good...
Material Conditions of Writing Christine Brooke-Rose
She began work on this book in 1964, but was not able to finish it for three years, until, while staying with Ezra Pound 's daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz , in the Italian Tyrol...
Textual Production 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.
Textual Production Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR published an exhilarating, funny, revelant
Hayman, David, and Keith Cohen. “An Interview with Christine Brooke-Rose”. Contemporary Literature, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 1-23.
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study of the Cantos, called in an appropriately Poundian flourish A ZBC of Ezra Pound.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR published a second critical analysis of Ezra Pound, entitled A Structural Analysis of Pound 's Usura Canto
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR looked to Pound for technique and Beckett for morale, appreciating in each his obstinate humour in the face of despair.
Hayman, David, and Keith Cohen. “An Interview with Christine Brooke-Rose”. Contemporary Literature, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 1-23.
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She was also influenced by the French nouveau roman, especially the work of...
Friends, Associates Phyllis Bottome
PB was introduced to Ezra Pound (as half American) by May Sinclair at one of her parties in London.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Harcourt, Brace and Company.
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Friends, Associates Phyllis Bottome
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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Textual Production 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...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Bishop
Important among EB 's friendships were those with Marianne Moore (whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but...
Literary responses Arnold Bennett
AB 's reviews, combined with his visibly privileged lifestyle, did not help his reputation among younger writers (such as those in the Bloomsbury Group ) as a wealthy snob or a philistine. Wyndham Lewis attacked...

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