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Ezra Pound to His Parents - Letters 1895-1929 (Hardcover)
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Ezra Pound to His Parents - Letters 1895-1929 (Hardcover)
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The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis
Pound (1885-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up
in Philadelphia, where his father was an assayer in the U.S. Mint;
was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Hamilton
College in upstate New York; taught briefly at Wabash College,
Crawfordsville, Indiana; then left America for London, where he
lived from 1908 to the end of 1920, after which he lived in Paris
until 1924, and then in Rapallo, Italy. His letters home reveal not
only the warm affection, openness, and playfulness of the young man
to his devoted parents, from schooldays through college and on into
his life as teacher, poet, and critic, but also the ways in which
he shared with them the ideas, influences, and experiences that
went into the development of his exceptional poetic genius. He kept
them in touch with his progress in realising his ambition to become
a good and powerful poet, with what he was writing and doing, who
he was meeting, his dealings with publishers, editors, and
magazines, and his bold plans for reforms and revolutions. The
letters are a rich mine of information about Pound himself and
about the literary and social worlds in which he moved and had his
being. They also display his epistolary idiosyncrasies and his
inventive and witty way with words. Altogether they are of great
human as well as literary and historical interest, and give an
intimate insight into this revolutionary and influential poet's
life and work. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in
Pound, and an irresistible book for the general reader with an
interest in literary life in the twentieth century.
All the extant letters to his parents up to 1929, the year they
moved to be near him in Rapallo, are included here in full. Ezra
Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz directed the edition, and
contributes a memoir of Isabel and Homer Pound. There is a
comprehensive Glossary of persons named in the letters, and the
letters are accompanied by explanatory notes and commentary.
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