Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages.
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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,
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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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.
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...
Occupation
Wyndham Lewis
WL
was an avant-garde painter and writer. His paintings were shown in the second Post-Impressionist exhibit, held in London in 1912, and for a time he worked with Roger Fry
and the Omega Workshops
...
The Egoist Press
went on to publish Dora Marsden's The Definition of the Godhead, Eliot
's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Pound
's Dialogues of Fontenelle, Lewis
's Tarr,...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In November 1915, after Joyce
's novel had been rejected by various publishers, HSW
offered to publish it. But it was difficult for her to find a printer who was not frightened by the prospect...
Occupation
Ford Madox Ford
After months of negotiation, FMF
and Ezra Pound
persuaded patron John Quinn
to finance the new review. Quinn, who was angry with James Joyce
over issues involving manuscripts, demanded that Joyce should be excluded from...
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...
Literary responses
H. D.
HD's prose fictions met with less critical success than the poetry which she had published hitherto. Their word-play, symbolic structures, and manipulation of myth were seen as arbitrary, as distractions from rather than as elements...
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...
Literary responses
May Sinclair
Pound
thought the review very nobly done.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
