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.
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
Gertrude Stein
Over the years, the old crowd had begun to disperse and the Saturday evening salons were frequented more by writers and less by artists. Although GS
had published only a few volumes and had often...
In addition to Pound
and her classmate Marianne Moore
, HD's friends from her teenage years in Pennsylvania included another poet, William Carlos Williams
.
Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin.
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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
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
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
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
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...
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.
Hayman, David, and Keith Cohen. “An Interview with Christine Brooke-Rose”. Contemporary Literature, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 1-23.
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She was also influenced by the French nouveau roman, especially the work of...
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
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...
Literary responses
Katharine Tynan
Yeats
noted that by including Joyce here KT
had helped launch his career: It has led to the publication of some of Joyce's fiction in a little London paper called the Egotist [sic] over which...
Literary responses
T. S. Eliot
During TSE
's last years he reaped a rich harvest of public honours, both in Britain and internationally. Since then his standing as leading poet of the modernist movement and dominant figure of twentieth-century English...
