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The Bughouse - The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound (Paperback)
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The Bughouse - The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound (Paperback)
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'An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de Waal
In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his
broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before
the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a
potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths
Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade.
At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most
controversial: a genius writer - 'The most important living poet in
the English language' according to T. S. Eliot - but also a traitor
and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure.
Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went
to visit him at what was perhaps the world's most unorthodox
literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum.
Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse
captures the essence of Pound - the artistic flair, the profound
human flaws - whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in
the twentieth century.
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