Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Ezra Pound
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Standard Name: Pound, Ezra
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, 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.
In 1919 she hired Ezra Pound
to respond to the manuscript. He told her that she was out of touch . . . with the best contemporary work, that she did not understand the difference...
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Elaine Feinstein
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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...
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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/.
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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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Nancy Cunard
The same company published Pound
and Eliot
(whose Prufrock is a pervasive presence in Cunard's first two collections). The title of this one strikes a note characteristic of her throughout her life. In later life...
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May Sinclair
The piece on Flint links him with T. S. Eliot
by using terms similar to those which Sinclair had used in reviewing The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, praising him as a modern...
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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...
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Anne Stevenson
In the title-poem, each of five stanzas ends with a version of the first closing lines: we thought we were living now, / but we were living then.
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
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These we, it seems, are...
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Carol Shields
The four voices belong to academic critic Sarah Maloney, who came on the booklet of Swann's poems at a borrowed summer cottage, felt an astonished sense of discovery and sympathy, published the earliest criticism of...
