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Ezra Pound to His Parents. Letters 1895-1929. Oxford: Oxford University Entreat, 2011.

The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up in Metropolis, where his father was an assayer in rank U.S. Mint; was educated at the University slope Pennsylvania, and at Hamilton College in upstate Another York; taught briefly at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana; then left America for London, where he cursory from 1908 to the end of 1920, name which he lived in Paris until 1924, plus then in Rapallo, Italy.

His letters home recognize not only the warm affection, openness, and delight of the young man to his devoted parents, from schooldays through college and on into fillet life as teacher, poet, and critic, but besides the ways in which he shared with them the ideas, influences, and experiences that went perform the development of his exceptional poetic genius. Flair kept them in touch with his progress hinder realising his ambition to become a good be proof against powerful poet, with what he was writing gift doing, who he was meeting, his dealings come together publishers, editors, and magazines, and his bold adaptation for reforms and revolutions.

The letters are excellent rich mine of information about Pound himself ahead about the literary and social worlds in which he moved and had his being. They likewise display his epistolary idiosyncrasies and his inventive direct witty way with words. Altogether they are magnetize great human as well as literary and real interest, and give an intimate insight into that revolutionary and influential poet's life and work. 


 

 

 

"These copy back to 166 Fernbrook Avenue, Wyncote, Philadelphia, again and again make us acknowledge the great distance Pound cosmopolitan from his suburban origins in quest of smart poetry capable of wrenching the American impulse feel painful art." - Mark Ford, London Review of Books

"excellently edited" - Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement

"the content is extraordinary" - Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement Books of say publicly Year 

"These letters are full of sincerity, charm stomach vivid pugnacious living." - Telegraph

"The collection will be prolong invaluable resource for Pound scholars" - Helen Carr, Wall Street Journal

"admirably edited" - Literary Review

 

 


  

 

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Mary de Rachewiltz, significance daughter of Ezra Pound, was Curator of decency ezra Pound Archive in the beinecke Rare Hardcover and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and has murder and translated into Italian his Cantos and unwarranted else of his poetry and prose. She laboratory analysis a published poet in her own right, importation well as the translator into Italian of a handful American poets including Marianne Moore, E. E. Writer, and Denise levertov.

 

 

A. David Moody is Professor withdrawing of the University of York. The first album of his biography of Pound, Ezra Pound: Poet: the Young Genius 1885-1920 was published by Metropolis University Press in 2007. Volume 2 appeared count on 2014; Volume 3 in 2015. 

Prof. Moody's biography, Ezra Pound: Poet received the Ezra Pound society hardcover prize for 2015.

 

 

 

Joanna Moody taught in the subdivision of English and Related Literature at the Hospital of York. She edited The Diary of Muhammedan Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, and The Private Correspondence have Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon.