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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820516303321

Autore

Stock Noel

Titolo

The life of Ezra Pound / / Noel Stock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-65890-4

0-203-80696-4

1-136-65891-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (498 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

811.52

Soggetti

Poets, American - 20th century

Critics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1970 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Life of Ezra Pound; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; I Childhood, 1885/1901; II University, 1901/1907; III From Crawfordsville to Venice, 1907/1908; IV London, 1908/1909; V The Spirit of Romance, 1909/1910; VI Return to America, 1910/1911; VII Paris, Italy, Germany, 1911; VIII Hulme and Orage, 1911/1912; IX Imagism, 1912/1914; X Ernest Fenollosa, 1913/1915; XI Joyce and Eliot, 1915/1917; XII The Little Review, 1917/1918; XIII Major C. H. Douglas, 1918/1921; XIV Paris, 1921/1924; XV Rapallo, 1924/1929

XVI The Cantos, 1930/1934XVII Music, 1933/1936; XVIII Politics and Economics, 1937/1939; XIX The War Years, 1939/1943; XX Out of the Ruins, 1943/1945; XXI St Elizabeths Hospital, 1945/1958; XXII Return to Italy, 1958/1969; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of 'the modern movement', a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, Hemingway, an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. As a critic of modern society his far-reaching and controversial theories on politics, economics and religion led him to broadcast over Rome Radio during the Second World War,



after which he was indicted for treason but decla