Pound/ Williams: Selected Correspondence of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, two towering figures in American poetry, began their lifelong, and often contentious, friendship as students at the University of Pennsylvania. Their correspondence ran from 1907, the year Pound took up his virtually permanent residence in Europe, until Williams' death in 1963. The letters contribute an unparalleled documentary record of modern culture - a wealth of information about the lives and works of the two poets themselves; the literary and political movements in which they became involved and the impact of public events upon the arts; the activities of other writers and artists; and the world o…
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Weitere Autoren: Williams, William Carlos / Witemeyer, Hugh
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1301-1
- EAN: 9780811213011
- Produktnummer: 9414804
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.3 cm 730 g
- Gewicht: 730
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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.
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