Ezra Pound correspondence with Achilles Fang, 1950-1968.

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Ezra Pound correspondence with Achilles Fang, 1950-1968.

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The correspondence, mostly of which dates from between 1950 and 1954, principally concerns Fang's efforts to assist Pound in the transliteration of Chinese characters and in the publication of his Confucian translations. There are also letters by Omar Pound about the advisability of a 1955 petition for Pound's release from St. Elizabeth's.

0.80 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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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...

Pound, Omar S.

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Fang, Achilles

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