Pound/Joyce

Pound/Joyce
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1967
Genre: Critics
ISBN:

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1971
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811201612

Originally published in 1950 under title: The letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941.

Letters of Note

Letters of Note
Author: Shaun Usher
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1838856161

Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

Personae

Personae
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1909
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

The Paris Residences of James Joyce

The Paris Residences of James Joyce
Author: Martina Nicolls
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2020-02-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527547671

This book presents a narrative and photographic journey of the hotels and apartments where James Joyce lived for twenty years in 1920s and 1930s Paris. In June 1920, at the age of 38, the Irish author sought a city where he could finish Ulysses—one of the finest literary works in history. He arrived in Paris on the recommendation of Ezra Pound on 8 July and stayed for 20 years. With Nora, fifteen-year-old Giorgio and thirteen-year-old Lucia, he moved in and out of 18 residences in five arrondissements in Paris. Which arrondissements did he prefer? Which residence was the first place with the luxury of a telephone? Who did he entertain, and where was he most productive and creative? This book is both a guide for the armchair wanderer and a roadmap for Joyce aficionados in Paris. It provides new insights into Joyce’s life in Paris, based around the changing locations, styles, and sizes of his residences, depending upon the fluctuations of his finances. This book is a rich collection of information about each residence with an historical account of the duration, cost, lifestyle, and cultural atmosphere amid the significance of the social times.

Ezra Pound and Music

Ezra Pound and Music
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780811217842

Included here are all of Pound's concert reviews and statements; the biweekly columns written under the pen name William Atheling for The New Age in London; articles from other periodicals; the complete text of the 1924 landmark volume Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony; extracts from books and letters, and the poet's additional writings on the subject of music. The pieces are organized chronologically, with illuminating commentary, thorough footnotes, and an index. Three appendixes complete this comprehensive volume; an analysis of Pound's theories of "absolute rhythm" and "Great Bass;" a glossary of important musical personalities mentioned in the text and the composer George Antheil's 1924 appreciation, "Why a Poet Quit the Muses."

Writers in Paris

Writers in Paris
Author: David Burke
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458759067

No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work an...

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1957-01-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811221903

Ezra Pound has been called "the inventor of modern poetry in English." The verse and criticism which he produced during the early years of the twentieth century very largely determined the directions of creative writing in our time; virtually every major poet in England and America today has acknowledged his help or influence. Pound's lyric genius, his superb technique, and his fresh insight into literary problems make him one of the small company of men who through the centuries have kept poetry alive—one of the great innovators. This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations. The span covered is Pound's entire writing career, from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae. Included are parts of his best known works—the Chinese translations, the sequence called Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, the Homage to Sextus Propertius. The Cantos, Pound's major epic, are presented in generous selections, chosen to emphasize the main themes of the whole poem.

Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound

Selected Cantos of Ezra Pound
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1970
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811201605

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.