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The Poets of Rapallo - How Mussolini's Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers (Hardcover)
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The Poets of Rapallo - How Mussolini's Italy shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers (Hardcover)
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A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century
English-language poets. Why did poets from the United States,
Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the
early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were-or
became-some of the most famous poets of the twentieth century. What
brought them together, and what did they hope to achieve? The Poets
of Rapallo is about the conversations, collaborations, and
disagreements among Ezra and Dorothy Pound, W.B. and George Yeats,
Richard Aldington and Brigit Patmore, Thomas MacGreevy, Louis
Zukofsky, and Basil Bunting. Drawing on their correspondence,
diaries, drafts of poems, sketches, and photographs, this book
shows how the backdrop of the Italian fascist regime is essential
to their writing about their home countries and their ideas about
modern art and poetry. It also explores their interconnectedness as
poets and shows how these connections were erased as their work was
polished for publication. Focusing on the years between 1928 and
1935, when Pound and Yeats hosted an array of visiting writers,
this book shows how the literary culture of Rapallo forged the
lifelong friendships of Richard Aldington and Thomas MacGreevy-both
veterans of the First World War-and of Louis Zukofsky and Basil
Bunting, who imagined a new kind of "democratic" poetry for the
twentieth century. In the wake of the Second World War, these four
poets all downplayed their relationship to Ezra Pound and avoided
discussing how important Rapallo was to their development as poets.
But how did these "democratic" poets respond to the fascist context
in which they worked during their time in Rapallo? The Poets of
Rapallo discusses their collaboration with Pound, their awareness
of the rising tide of fascism, and even-in some cases-their
complicity in the activities of the fascist regime. The Poets of
Rapallo charts the new direction for modernist writing that these
writers imagined, and in the process, it exposes the dark
underbelly of some of the most lauded poetry in the English
language.
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