Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Ezra Pound Collection, 1905-1975, (bulk 1930-1960).
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Ezra Pound Collection, 1905-1975, (bulk 1930-1960).
Manuscripts and correspondence reflecting portions of his artistic and political life make up the bulk of the Ezra Pound Collection, 1905 to 1975. The Works Series consists of typescripts, galley proofs, page proofs, printed pages, notes, and fragments of poems, articles, essays, broadcasts, and books which trace the course of Pound's artistic and political development. The small amount of poetry by Pound represented in this collection includes Cantos 112 to 117, undated; Hilda's Book (1905-1907); Canzoni (1911); Cathay (1915); Lustra of Ezra Pound (1916); Quia Pauper Amavi (1918); The Fifth Decad of Cantos, Cantos 42 to 52 (1937), and a few single poems. Manuscripts for pamphlets include Social Credit: An Impact (1935); An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the U.S.A. (1950); America, Roosevelt, and the Causes of the Present War (1951); and Gold and Labour (1952). In this series also are Guide to Kulchur (1938) with handwritten corrections; A Visiting Card (1952); Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization (1960); and three of his translations. The collection also contains copies of transcriptions of Pound's shortwave broadcasts from Rome, 1941-1943. The outgoing section of the Correspondence Series consists chiefly of letters from Pound to various authors, artists, editors, friends, and publishers of books and literary magazines during the years he lived in London, Paris, Rapallo, and Washington, D.C. Chief among the recipients of his letters are Richard Aldington, Josef Bard, Montgomery Butchart, Nancy Cunard, Ingrid Davies, Ronald Duncan, Denis Goacher, Stanley Nott, Brigit Patmore, Virginia Risse, Peter Russell, Dallam Simpson, Noel Stock, and Max Wykes-Joyce. The smaller group of incoming correspondence contains letters from Josef Bard, Wyndham Lewis, H.L. Mencken, his mother, and his daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz. The Miscellaneous Series contains extensive third-party correspondence and manuscripts concerning Pound's internment at St. Elizabeths Hospital. There are several manuscripts concerning a variety of subjects relating to Pound written by John Fitzgerald, Denis Goacher, R. McNair-Willson, Saturno Montanari, Hugh MacDiarmid, Mary de Rachewiltz, Noel Stock, Henry S. Swabey, and S.V. Yankowski. Throughout the series are poems by individual authors such as R.L. Cook, Norman Davis, Ronald Duncan, Martin Dworkin, Geoffrey Johnson, Lori Petri, and Omar Pound. Letters in this series include correspondence by T.S. Eliot, D.D. Paige, Dorothy Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, Olga Rudge, Peter Russell, and William Carlos Williams. Notes, correspondence, and other material on Ezra Pound from Noel Stock include his letters re the Pound Festschrift.
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16 boxes (6.66 linear feet), 7 galley folders.
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