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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Natalie Clifford Barney | Barney's translator Anna Livia
describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB
's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly... |
| Textual Features | Dora Marsden | A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at... |
| Textual Features | Laura Riding | LR
has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound
still believed that the movement... |
| Textual Features | Dora Marsden | Regarding the influence on each other of Imagism and Marsden's egoism, Andrew Thacker
notes their shared emphases (from Bergson
) on the weaknesses of abstract rhetoric in art and politics, and their valuing of intuition... |
| Textual Features | H. D. | This is war poetry which looks at the home front, like T. S. Eliot
's Four Quartets and Ezra Pound
's Pisan Cantos. It has been classified as epic. |
| Textual Features | H. D. | Like the later End to Torment, this relates its author's attachments to and disaffection from Lawrence
and Pound
, her (tor)mentors. 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. |
| Residence | Bryher | Shari Benstock
explains that the very wealthy Bryher had been advised to move to Switzerland for tax purposes. But Benstock also suggests that Bryher's Swiss home became a creative refuge for her and H. D... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | T. S. Eliot | TSE
published at New York his first work of literary criticism, Ezra Pound
: His Metric and Poetry. Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace. 24 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Natalie Clifford Barney | Remy de Gourmont
published some of NCB
's poems in Mercure de France in 1910. Wickes, George. The Amazon of Letters: The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 121 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Mew | May Sinclair
helped to introduce CM
's work to Ezra Pound
, who received it enthusiastically and helped to get it published here. The Egoist unfortunately did not pay. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 188 |
| Author summary | Florence Farr | |
| politics | H. D. | H. D.
, a staunch anti-fascist, broke off contact with her long-time friend Ezra Pound
. Barbara Guest
, however, reads her as responding to personal behaviour rather than to Pound's support for fascism and anti-semitism. Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins. 247-9 Robinson, Janice S. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet. Houghton Mifflin. 304 |
| politics | Natalie Clifford Barney | Abandoning her formerly held pacifist views, NCB
supported Mussolini
and the Fascists. In 1940 she presented Ezra Pound
with a radio and a letter praising Lord Ha Ha
's pro-Nazi broadcasts for their exceptionally far-sweeping... |
| politics | Nancy Cunard | NC
's anti-fascist political convictions are centrally motivating throughout her productive life. In 1946 she wrote to Ezra Pound
: Your address was sent me by a person in England who had a letter from... |
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