Pound/Ford: The Story Of A Literary Friendship
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Few literary friendships in the twentieth century were as formative and fiercely intellectual as the one between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford — two towering figures whose correspondence crackled with argument, admiration, and artistic ambition. Pound/Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship presents the collected letters between these giants of modernism, alongside their writings about each other, meticulously edited and contextualised by scholar Brita Lindberg-Seyersted with narrative commentary and detailed notes that illuminate every exchange. The correspondence chronicles decades of a relationship that shaped the very contours of modern literature, revealing how two vastly different temperaments — Pound's iconoclastic intensity and Ford's urbane pragmatism — nonetheless found common cause in the pursuit of literary excellence. Lindberg-Seyersted's scholarly apparatus transforms this collection into an indispensable resource, tracing the ideological currents, personal tensions, and mutual influences that defined both men's work. For anyone drawn to the inner world of modernism, this volume raises a compelling question: when genius corresponds with genius, who truly leads whom?
Author: Brita Lindberg-Seyersted
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Faber and Faber
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few literary friendships in the twentieth century were as formative and fiercely intellectual as the one between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford — two towering figures whose correspondence crackled with argument, admiration, and artistic ambition. Pound/Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship presents the collected letters between these giants of modernism, alongside their writings about each other, meticulously edited and contextualised by scholar Brita Lindberg-Seyersted with narrative commentary and detailed notes that illuminate every exchange. The correspondence chronicles decades of a relationship that shaped the very contours of modern literature, revealing how two vastly different temperaments — Pound's iconoclastic intensity and Ford's urbane pragmatism — nonetheless found common cause in the pursuit of literary excellence. Lindberg-Seyersted's scholarly apparatus transforms this collection into an indispensable resource, tracing the ideological currents, personal tensions, and mutual influences that defined both men's work. For anyone drawn to the inner world of modernism, this volume raises a compelling question: when genius corresponds with genius, who truly leads whom?