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
Travel H. D.
HD made two trips through France and Italy before 1913 with Richard Aldington , whom she later married. Ezra Pound went with them on one of these occasions.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marianne Moore
Her subjects included writers like Louise Bogan and Ezra Pound , and artists like Anna Pavlova .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Wyndham Lewis
He examines the work of Gertrude Stein (whom he counsels to get out of english) and popular writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), as well as Bergson , Einstein , Pound , Joyce , and others.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Sinclair
According to biographer Suzanne Raitt , MS sometimes used aspects of her own experience in her stories. The Pin-Prick, 1915, about a young woman so sensitive that she kills herself in response to a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nina Hamnett
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Wickham
This collection represents a significant departure from AW 's earlier work in its adoption of literary conventions. Peopled with jesters, knights, witches, and shepherdesses, the poems in this volume incorporate historical (Anglo-Saxon and Elizabethan), mythological...
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...
Textual Production 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.
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
WBY published The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. His idiosyncratic selection included Alice Meynell , Ezra Pound , Edith Sitwell , Rabindranath Tagore , Sylvia Townsend Warner , and his friend Dorothy Wellesley .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
280n27
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
17
, 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.
232
Textual Production W. B. Yeats
His friend Ezra Pound introduced Yeats to the Noh theatre, which exerted an influence on many of his later plays.
Textual Production 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...
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 Sylvia Pankhurst
In its latter years the Dreadnought took on a more literary tone, featuring stories by Anatole France and poetry by Ezra Pound . One of those who worked on it with SP was Claude McKay

Timeline

1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...

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1907

Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 33-5.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
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1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...

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1 January 1913

Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury.

2 July 1914: The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited...

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2 July 1914

The first issue of the magazine Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis , formally announced the arrival of Vorticism, an avant-garde movement in art.

20 July 1915: The second and final issue of Wyndham Lewis's...

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20 July 1915

The second and final issue of Wyndham Lewis 's Vorticist magazine, Blast, included artwork and literary pieces by Helen Saunders , Jessie Dismorr , and Dorothy Shakespear , along with poems by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot .

Texts

Pound, Ezra. A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 of Ezra Pound. John Rodker, 1928.
Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XVI Cantos of Ezra Pound. Three Mountains Press, 1925.
Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Hours Press, 1930.
Pound, Ezra. A Lume Spento. A. Antonini, 1908.
Pound, Ezra. Cantos LII-LXXI. New Directions, 1940.
Pound, Ezra. Canzoni. Elkin Mathews, 1911.
Pound, Ezra. Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII. New Directions, 1968.
Pound, Ezra. Eleven New Cantos, XXXI-XLI. Farrar and Rinehart, 1934.
H. D., and Ezra Pound. End to Torment. Editors Pearson, Norman Holmes and Michael King, New Directions, 1979.
Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Ovid Press, 1920.
Pound, Ezra. Poems 1918-21. Boni and Liveright, 1921.
Pound, Ezra. Section: Rock-Drill. All’Insegna del Pesce D’Oro, 1955.
Confucius,. Ta Hio: The Great Learning. Editor Pound, Ezra, University of Washington Book Store, 1928.
Pound, Ezra. The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New Directions, 1948.
Pound, Ezra. The Fifth Decad of Cantos. Faber and Faber, 1937.
Pound, Ezra. The Pisan Cantos. James Laughlin, 1948.
Pound, Ezra. “Three Cantos”. Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited by Harriet Monroe.
Pound, Ezra. Thrones. All’Insegna del Pesce D’Oro, 1959.