Otto A. Bird correspondence with Ezra Pound, 1932-1955.

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Otto A. Bird correspondence with Ezra Pound, 1932-1955.

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Correspondence between Otto Bird and Ezra Pound, poet and literary critic. Pound's early correspondence with Bird chiefly concerns Bird's study of the medieval Italian poet Guido Cavalcanti. Later correspondence contains Pound's ideas on the philosophy of education as shaped by Dante, Milton, Aristotle, Confucius, and others, and his opinions of world literature in relation to the "Great Books" series.

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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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...

Bird, Otto A., 1914-

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Associate editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's The Great Ideas; a Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World, 1947-1950. Professor of philosophy and general director of liberal studies at Notre Dame University, 1950-1970. From the description of Otto A. Bird correspondence with Ezra Pound, 1932-1955. (University of Arkansas - Fayetteville). WorldCat record id: 30699628 ...

Cavalcanti, Guido, -1300

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