The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941

Pound, Ezra; Edited by D. D. Paige

ISBN 10: 0811201619 / ISBN 13: 9780811201612

Edité par New Directions, New York, 1971

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No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. 8 inches tall; 358 pages. This collection spans crucial decades of Pound's life and career, revealing his sharp wit, literary ambitions, and tumultuous relationships with fellow writers and offers an intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's most controversial and influential poets. Through these letters, Pound's artistic evolution unfolds, from his early correspondence with Yeats to his later critiques of modernist trends. Each letter is a testament to Pound's dedication to poetry, economics, and cultural commentary, making this volume essential for scholars and enthusiasts alike, seeking deeper insights into the complexities of his literary legacy. [Adapted from Reviews].

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941
• Éditeur: New Directions, New York
• Date de parution: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0811201619
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780811201612
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Second Printing.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket, As Issued
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Synopsis

Ezra Pound would deserve a place in the literary history of the twentieth century if only for bringing to light and to publication the work, among others, of T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, James Joyce and William Carlos Williams. His tireless activities in behalf of other poets, artists, and literary ventures of every sort were in large part carried on by way of his voluminous correspondence. Eliot himself once commented that Pound's "epistolary style is masterly"--a judgment wholly confirmed by the 384 examples that comprise this selection. Included here are the poet's letters to Margaret Anderson of The Little Review, Harriet Monroe of Poetry, Harriet Shaw Weaver of The Egoist, H. L. Mencken and John Quinn; to such poets and writers as E. E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Eliot, Joyce and, of course, his old friend Dr. Williams. Of exceptional interest, however, is Pound's massive correspondence with the young unknowns who wrote to him for advice. "The tone of his prose criticism," says D. D. Paige in his Introduction, "with its coruscations, its ellipses, its dogmatisms, its gay carnival air, its unwillingness to enjoy the safety gravity offers, its violence against entrenched stupidity and its championing of fresh writers--all that simply encouraged them to approach him. A tremendous lure!"

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New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: "Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US." Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.