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.

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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 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...
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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Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF was editor of the first number of Prospect, a literary magazine published this winter at Cambridge University . She used her editorship (continued until the fifth issue) to introduce an American avant-garde influenced...
Textual Production H. D.
In autumn 1912 Hilda Doolittle and her new friend Richard Aldington together showed Ezra Pound some of their collaborative translations from the Greek Anthology.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
In the last issue of The New Freewoman, Pound , Aldington , Huntley Carter , Allen Upward , and Reginald Kauffman published an open letter beginning, We, the undersigned men of letters who are...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
This journal had an auspicious beginning: Marsden announced in January that it would serialize James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Marsden played an important role in Joyce's early...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
But DM 's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing...
Textual Production Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Bough, a comparative study of human beliefs from the earliest times, had a major influence on modernist writings. SJGF 's text outlines an evolving belief system, which moves from magic, to religion...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Formerly stored in a wicker trunk at the home of her niece Elaine Dyson Bate, DM 's papers are now at Princeton University . Her collection contains manuscripts, papers, and letters to and from Rebecca West
Textual Production May Sinclair
Ezra Pound , seeking to obtain a hearing for Eliot's difficult new poetry, saw MS as a valuable and unusual spokesperson from the former generation.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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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).
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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.