The Selected Letters Of Ezra Pound

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201612
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941 written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1950 under title: The letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213011
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pound/Williams written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 170 letters selected from the surviving correspondence of two of Modernism's legendary poets. Dating from 1907 until Williams' death in 1963, each letter is reproduced in full and accompanied by explanatory notes. Includes a historical introduction setting the letters in context. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210133
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pound/Zukofsky written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pound / Zukofsky is the fifth volume in the ongoing series, The Correspondence of Ezra Pound. Pound (1885-1972) and Zukofsky (1904-1978) met only three times: in Rapallo, Italy, for a few weeks in 1933; for a few hours in New York, in 1939; and briefly again at St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington, D.C., in 1954. Yet by the time of their first meeting, they had already exchanged almost 300 letters. over half of their total correspondence. The two poets knew each other quite literally as men of letters.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311324
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn written by Ezra Pound and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915–1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi. Pound wrote to John Quinn—a New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual taste and discrimination—about these artists and many more, urging him to support their journals, collect their manuscripts, and buy and exhibit their paintings and sculptures. Quinn at one time owned manuscripts of Ulysses and The Waste Land, Brancusi’s sculpture Mlle. Pogany, and Picasso’s painting Three Musicians. Yet he was often skeptical about the value of new schools of art, such as Vorticism, and disturbed by the outspokenness of authors such as Joyce. Pound’s letters are unusually tactful when he counters Quinn’s doubts and explains the premises of experimental art. Pound’s letters to Quinn are touched with his characteristic humor and wordplay and are especially notable for their lucidity of expression, engendered by Pound’s deep respect for Quinn.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201599
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Michael Dillon, June 2009.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New York : New Directions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear, Their Letters, 1909-1914 written by Ezra Pound and published by New York : New Directions. This book was released on 1984 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Ezra.' Listen to it--Ezra! Ezra!--And a third time--Ezra!... Some people have complained of untidy boots--how could they look at his boots, when there is his moving, beautiful face to watch!" These words from the notebook of Dorothy Shakespear, dated February 16, 1909, record the entry into her life of the energetic young American, recently arrived in London, who was to become her husband--Ezra Pound. Their correspondence, begun the following year, extends over more than six decades, until the poet's death in 1972. All of these letters are of unusual literary interest, but those from before their marriage in April 1914 have a special importance, since few from this period have been published. The standard edition of The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, edited by D. D. Paige, includes none from 1910-1911 and only a handful from 1912-1913, yet these were the crucial years in Pound's literary development and in the shaping of early modernism. The over two hundred letters and diary entries in Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909-1914 are published here for the first time. Taken together, they provide a detailed record of the poet's search for a new style and give a full portrait of a dynamic young expatriate who was simultaneously involved in two literary generations, the companion and close friend of Yeats and Ford Madox Hueffer as well as of Wyndham Lewis and the sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska. They also shed a poignant light on The Pisan Cantos of 1945, where amid the ruins of his life Pound recalled again and again the events and people described in these letters, as if the memory of 1909-1914 was the only stable point left in a disintegrating personal universe. The letters have been thoroughly annotated by Omar Pound, translator, and bibliographer of Wyndham Lewis, and by A. Walton Litz of Princeton University, the author of studies of James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and other modern writers. The book includes: a biographical appendix, with particular emphasis on lesser-known people mentioned in the letters; some unpublished early poems by Pound transcribed by Dorothy into one of her notebooks; family charts, one of which shows Pound's ancestral origins; numerous unpublished illustrations; and an extensive index.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound written by Ezra Pound and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201605
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound written by Ezra Pound and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection from the Cantos was made by Ezra Pound himself in 1965. It is intended to "indicate main elements" in the long poem -- his personal epic -- with which he was engaged for more than fifty years. His choice includes, of course, a number of the Cantos most admired by critics and anthologists, such as Canto XIII ("Kung [Confucius] walked by the dynastic temple..."), Canto XLV ("With usura hath no man a house of good stone...") and the passage from The Pisan Cantos (LXXXI) beginning "What thou lovest well remains / the rest is dross," and so the book is an ideal introduction for newcomers to the great work. But it has, too, particular interest for the already initiated reader and the specialist, in its revelation, through Pound's own selection of "main elements," of the relative importance which he himself placed on various motifs as they figure in the architecture of the whole poem. Book jacket.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353561
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.

Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound written by Ezra Pound and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: