Letter 23 Apr 1956 Caixa Postal 279, Petropolis, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, to John Edwards.

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Letter 23 Apr 1956 Caixa Postal 279, Petropolis, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, to John Edwards.

Typed letter, signed, from American poet Elizabeth 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 p. 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...

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...

Edwards, John Hamilton, 1922-...

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