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Pound/Cummings :

(Number (ISBN

0472102982 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780472102983 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

Number

b528890

Title Proper

Pound/Cummings :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Barry Ahearn.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ann Arbor :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 442 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings carried on a long and varied correspondence from the 1920s until Cummings's death in 1962. This volume collects all of the letters from this important friendship in the history of modern poetry. Throughout the correspondence both poets reveal themselves and their beliefs to a remarkable degree. Pound entrusted to Cummings details of his political outlook in the 1930s and 1940s, including his opinions about Mussolini's Italy. The letters to Cummings also shed new light on the question of Pound's sanity after World War II. Although he was diagnosed as mentally unfit, the letters generally show no evidence of paranoia, only of his characteristic eccentricity.

Text of Note

Similarly, these letters should provoke a reevaluation of Cummings. Critics have treated Cummings's political views as either strictly private matters or merely incidental to his art. The letters, however, show that Cummings's radically conservative political opinions are wholly consistent with his poetics, and raise the question of the relation between Cummings's political principles and his enthusiasm for particular forms (and particular stars) of mass entertainment. In addition to their political revelations, the letters are steeped in the literary climate - and literary gossip - of the times. Pound comments often and candidly on Cummings's poetry and prose; both Pound and Cummings send light verse to each other. And the poets exchange anecdotes about such figures as Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Edmund Grosse, Max Eastman, and Aldous Huxley, among other writers.

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There is much here to interest and delight both fans and foes of Pound and Cummings. The book will be of primary importance to students and scholars of modern poetry, especially those who emphasize the intersection of literary works and political history.

Title

Pound/Cummings.

Cummings, E. E., (Edward Estlin),1894-1962

Pound, Ezra,1885-1972

Critics-- United States, Correspondence.

Poets, American-- 20th century, Correspondence.

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Book number

Ahearn, Barry.

Date of Transaction

20140218102733.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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