Marcella Spann Booth Collection of EzraPound 1886-2007 (bulk 1956-1970)

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

Spann, Marcella.

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Booth, Marcella Spann, 1932-

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Ezra Pound, 1885-1972 Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho. In 1889, the Pound family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1891 to Wyncote, Pennsylvania. In 1901, Pound enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, but two years later transferred to Hamilton College where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1905. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies, which included studying abroad in Europe. After receiving a master ...