Letters 1910-1912.

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Letters 1910-1912.

Consists of primarily of letters from poet Ezra Loomis Pound, 1885-1972, to Margaret Lanier Cravens, -1912, of Madison, Indiana. Miss Cravens, living in Paris at the time of this correspondence, provided financial assistance to Pound in support of his poetry. The correspondence concludes with a letter from Cravens to Pound, dated June 1, 1912, in which she clearly indicates her intention to commit suicide. Two letters from Walter M. Rummel about Cravens' death and five letters to Pound from Cravens' aunt complete the collection.

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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...

Cravens, Margaret

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Rummel, Walter Morse, 1887-1953

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