Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats & Modernism
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Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
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In the winter seasons between 1913 and 1916, two of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures — Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats — retreated together to a remote Sussex cottage, and from that unlikely collaboration emerged nothing less than the crucible of literary Modernism. James Longenbach's Stone Cottage reconstructs this remarkable partnership with meticulous scholarship, chronicling the intellectual exchange, shared obsessions, and creative friction that would shape the trajectory of modern poetry. Drawing on letters, journals, and unpublished manuscripts, Longenbach details how Pound served as Yeats's secretary while simultaneously absorbing and reacting against the elder poet's mysticism, nationalism, and symbolist aesthetics. Stone Cottage argues persuasively that this singular domestic arrangement was far more than a biographical curiosity — it was a crucible in which the competing forces of occultism, imagism, and Eastern philosophy were forged into the bedrock of Anglo-American Modernism. Longenbach writes with the precision of a scholar and the narrative drive of a literary detective, illuminating how two radically different poetic sensibilities sharpened each other against the Sussex landscape. For anyone who has read The Cantos or The Tower and wondered at their restless ambition, this study reveals the hidden conversations that made those masterworks possible.
Author: James Longenbach
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Oxford University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the winter seasons between 1913 and 1916, two of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures — Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats — retreated together to a remote Sussex cottage, and from that unlikely collaboration emerged nothing less than the crucible of literary Modernism. James Longenbach's Stone Cottage reconstructs this remarkable partnership with meticulous scholarship, chronicling the intellectual exchange, shared obsessions, and creative friction that would shape the trajectory of modern poetry. Drawing on letters, journals, and unpublished manuscripts, Longenbach details how Pound served as Yeats's secretary while simultaneously absorbing and reacting against the elder poet's mysticism, nationalism, and symbolist aesthetics. Stone Cottage argues persuasively that this singular domestic arrangement was far more than a biographical curiosity — it was a crucible in which the competing forces of occultism, imagism, and Eastern philosophy were forged into the bedrock of Anglo-American Modernism. Longenbach writes with the precision of a scholar and the narrative drive of a literary detective, illuminating how two radically different poetic sensibilities sharpened each other against the Sussex landscape. For anyone who has read The Cantos or The Tower and wondered at their restless ambition, this study reveals the hidden conversations that made those masterworks possible.