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.
Like the later End to Torment, this relates its author's attachments to and disaffection from Lawrence
and Pound
, her (tor)mentors.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Its material includes the end of HD's marriage and the beginning of her...
Family and Intimate relationships
H. D.
H. D.
and Ezra Pound
were introduced at a Hallowe'en party in Pennsylvania.
Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin.
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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...
Leisure and Society
Violet Hunt
Among les jeunes at VH
's home was Vorticist artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
, whose well-known phallic sculpture, Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, being too heavy to be moved to exhibitions, was left for a...
T. S. Eliot
praised the book in the Athenæum for 4 July 1919; Ezra Pound
wrote to Joyce that Bloom is a great man; Virginia Woolf
wrote in her diary that the book reeled...
Leisure and Society
Philip Larkin
PL
loved cricket, photography, and jazz. His tastes in jazz, as in literature and art, were explicitly anti-modernist (he linked together, as merely diverting, Parker
, Pound
or Picasso), but perhaps more flexible and...
Textual Features
Philip Larkin
His selection was resolutely unfashionable, favouring Hardy
and Betjeman
at the expense of Eliot
and Pound
. He was, however, remarkably generous in his selection of women poets (often for just one or two poems...
Family and Intimate relationships
Q. D. Leavis
Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often...
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...
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
...
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.
West became a regular contributor to The Freewoman and a prominent member of the London branch of the Freewoman Discussion Circle
. She also played central roles in the revival and transformation of The Freewoman...
Textual Features
Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
