Letters to E. E. Cummings, 1926-1962.

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Letters to E. E. Cummings, 1926-1962.

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Consists of 157 letters, 1926-1962 (but mostly after 1945), from Pound to Cummings; 5 letters, 1949-1953, from Pound to Marion Morehouse Cummings; one telegram, 1952, from Cummings to Pound; and letters to Cummings from Douglas Duncan Paige, Dorothy Pound, and Omar Pound.

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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...

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

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...