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
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships W. B. Yeats
Within a few months of proposing marriage to Maud Gonne 's daughter Iseult (as he had formerly proposed to to Gonne herself) WBY married (on 20 October 1917, at the age of fifty-two) Georgie Hyde-Lees
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.
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press . The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the...
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
Yet, though her voice (and her social and political views) were and would remain quite different from theirs, she was keenly attentive to the works of male contemporaries who were, like her, working to create...
Friends, Associates Anna Wickham
In ParisAW also met Sylvia Beach and Djuna Barnes , among others.
Hepburn, James, and Anna Wickham. “Preface”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith and Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, p. xix - xxiii.
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A brief encounter with Ezra Pound inspired the poem Song to Amidon.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
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Wickham also had a long-lasting friendship with Nina Hamnett .
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Wickham
Several poems in this collection are self-reflexive, taking poetic form itself as their subject. In The Egoist (a poem which shares its title with Dora Marsden 's journal The Egoist, associated with Pound and...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Fay Weldon
During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad , Jean Rhys (Such a louche young woman),
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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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...
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
McAlmon hosted a dinner party which Weaver attended together with Djuna Barnes , William Bird , sculptor Thelma Wood , and Ezra Pound , who mortified her by teasing her, quite without justification, about her...
Textual Production Harriet Shaw Weaver
The important literary magazine The Egoist passed into HSW 's editorship from 15 June 1914; she agreed to take on this post partly in order to limit the influence that Ezra Pound , with his...
Friends, Associates Harriet Shaw Weaver
As editor, HSW attempted to recruit Storm Jameson for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D. , whom she...
Residence Harriet Shaw Weaver
In May 1934, faulty wiring in the flat below hers caused an electrical fire in the building. HSW 's first editions were protected by her glass-fronted bookcase, but other precious books and mementoes such as...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
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,...

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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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.