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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sylvia Beach
Among the first subscribers were Thérèse Bertrand (later Fontaine) , André Gide , Dorothy and Ezra Pound , and Gertrude Stein .
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
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With the loyal support of French literary figures such as Valery Larbaud
Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
A few years later, in 1925, Barney approached Pound with her ideas for a new bilingual literary magazine, which she planned to edit with Sinclair Lewis .
Sieburth, Richard. “Ezra Pound: Letters to Natalie Barney”. Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol.
5
, pp. 279-95.
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Pound was discouraging, telling her that he...
politics Natalie Clifford Barney
Abandoning her formerly held pacifist views, NCB supported Mussolini and the Fascists. In 1940 she presented Ezra Pound with a radio and a letter praising Lord Ha Ha 's pro-Nazi broadcasts for their exceptionally far-sweeping...
Textual Production Natalie Clifford Barney
In 1919 she hired Ezra Pound to respond to the manuscript. He told her that she was out of touch . . . with the best contemporary work, that she did not understand the difference...
Publishing Natalie Clifford Barney
Remy de Gourmont published some of NCB 's poems in Mercure de France in 1910.
Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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In 1921 Pound had two of her poems published in the transatlantic review, with the caption Arranged by...
Literary responses Natalie Clifford Barney
Ezra Pound reviewed the book in the October 1921 issue of Dial, writing that NCB had managed to publish with complete mental laziness a book of unfinished sentences and broken paragraphs, which is, on...
Textual Features Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney's translator Anna Livia describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB 's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly...
Fictionalization Natalie Clifford Barney
In 1912-13, NCB 's fame was bolstered by a series of essays addressed to her by Remy de Gourmont entitled Lettres à l'Amazone, published in the Paris literary magazine Mercure de France.
Rood, Karen Lane, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 4. Gale Research.
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Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
NCB and Ezra Pound formed Bel Esprit, a short-lived patronage scheme which Pound described as a sort of consumers' league to pay for quality rather than quantity in literature and the fine arts.
Sieburth, Richard. “Ezra Pound: Letters to Natalie Barney”. Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, Vol.
5
, pp. 279-95.
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Friends, Associates Natalie Clifford Barney
By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry , Colette , Jean Cocteau , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Rabindranath Tagore , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott
Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
Ezra Pound , a friend and regular visitor at the salon during and after the interwar years, collaborated with NCB on a couple of unsuccessful literary ventures.
Friends, Associates Djuna Barnes
DB arrived in Paris with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound and James Joyce , and she soon came into contact with a great number of the US expatriates living there at this time, including...

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