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.
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...
Textual Production
Phyllis Bottome
After meeting Ezra Pound
this year, PB
at once wrote The Liqueur Glass, which she felt to be one of her best short stories, and finished The Captive (published by May 1915) which she...
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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...
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
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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.
qtd. in
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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Marianne Moore
Her subjects included writers like Louise Bogan
and Ezra Pound
, and artists like Anna Pavlova
.
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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...
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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, 1983, 2 vols.
313
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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
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...
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.