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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Natalie Clifford Barney | By the 1920s the salon attracted an impressive array of prominent writers, artists, and intellectuals, including Paul Valéry
, Colette
, Jean Cocteau
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Ernest Hemingway
, F. Scott |
| Friends, Associates | T. S. Eliot | London at this date was a heady place for a young poet to be, and this was as much because of the presence of Americans (like Ezra Pound
and Conrad Aiken
, both of whom... |
| Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | MMmade her modernist debut in New York in November 1915, meeting all the avant-garde. |
| Health | H. D. | HD was referred to Freud by her previous therapist, Hanns Sachs
. Before agreeing to take her on as a patient and student, Freud read her writings, as well as those of D. H. Lawrence |
| Instructor | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
looked to Pound
for technique and Beckett
for morale, appreciating in each his obstinate humour in the face of despair. qtd. in Hayman, David, and Keith Cohen. “An Interview with Christine Brooke-Rose”. Contemporary Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 1, 1976, pp. 1-23. 14 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | T. S. Eliot | In 1971 the poet's widow, Valerie Eliot
, edited a facsimile and transcript of the original Waste Land drafts, which revealed among other things how much influence Pound
had exercised over the poem in its... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | EF
wrote her first poems at play, while she bounced tennis balls against the garage door. When she showed one to a teacher and it appeared in the school magazine, she became hooked for life... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Philip Larkin | |
| Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | In the month this volume was published, Pound
printed in The Egoist a rollicking article about the outrage Eliot's poetry was producing. Only genius, he wrote, not mere talent, infallibly evokes a torrent of elderly... |
| Literary responses | Marianne Moore | Eliot
assessed her in his introduction as the greatest living master of light rhyme, and as one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime. qtd. in 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, 1990. |
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