TLS, Petropolis, Estado do Rio de Janeiro to John Edwards, 1956 Apr. 23.

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TLS, Petropolis, Estado do Rio de Janeiro to John Edwards, 1956 Apr. 23.

The Ezra Pound Collection contains 1 letter from Bishop to John Edwards in response to his request for a statement for a symposium on Ezra Pound's Cantos. Discusses, briefly, Pound's influence on her poetry.

1 item (1p.); 26.2 cm.

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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...

Edwards, John Hamilton, 1922-...

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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

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Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and had an often difficult childhood in Canada and New England. She wrote poetry in her youth, and developed as a writer at Vassar, where her friends included Mary McCarthy and Marianne Moore. In 1946 she published a book of poetry titled North and South, and travelled to Brazil, where she remained for fifteen years. Her 1956 book of poetry, A Cold Spring, won the Pulitzer Prize; her verse was noted for precision and balance. She also p...