Ezra Pound And Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters: 1909-1914
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This meticulously edited volume of correspondence chronicles the passionate and intellectually charged early relationship between Ezra Pound, one of modernism's most towering figures, and Dorothy Shakespear, the accomplished artist who would become his wife. Spanning the years 1909 to 1914, the letters capture a formative period in literary history, illuminating Pound's fierce ambitions, his evolving aesthetic theories, and the vibrant London cultural scene that surrounded them both. Edited by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz, the collection presents the exchange with rich scholarly apparatus, situating each letter within its biographical and historical context to reveal the full texture of the couple's world. The tone throughout is intimate yet intellectually alive, offering readers a rare, unguarded view of a poet in the act of becoming, alongside a woman of considerable taste and sensitivity who shaped his life in profound ways. An indispensable primary source for students of modernism, this correspondence stands as a deeply human document as much as a literary one.
Author: Omar Pound And A. Walton Litz
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Faber and Faber
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This meticulously edited volume of correspondence chronicles the passionate and intellectually charged early relationship between Ezra Pound, one of modernism's most towering figures, and Dorothy Shakespear, the accomplished artist who would become his wife. Spanning the years 1909 to 1914, the letters capture a formative period in literary history, illuminating Pound's fierce ambitions, his evolving aesthetic theories, and the vibrant London cultural scene that surrounded them both. Edited by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz, the collection presents the exchange with rich scholarly apparatus, situating each letter within its biographical and historical context to reveal the full texture of the couple's world. The tone throughout is intimate yet intellectually alive, offering readers a rare, unguarded view of a poet in the act of becoming, alongside a woman of considerable taste and sensitivity who shaped his life in profound ways. An indispensable primary source for students of modernism, this correspondence stands as a deeply human document as much as a literary one.