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WILHELM, JAMES J.

Literature & Fiction

Allen And Unwin

7 TroubadoursAuthor: Wilhelm, James J. Published University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1970] Physical Description: 235 p. : illus., mapProvençal poetry -- History and criticism. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. CONTENTS:

Seven troubadours: The creators of modern verse,

Pennsylvania State University Press

This book systematically traces Pound's career from his arrival in London in 1908 to his departure from Paris in 1924, emphasizing his activities but also describing his writings and relating them to his life. Avoiding either vitriolic condemnation or pious hagiography, Wilhelm examines Pound’s strengths, especially his influence on other artists (including painters and sculptors); he also deals with Pound’s weaknesses, as manifested particularly in his stormy encounters with people like Amy Lowell.Unlike recent popular biographies, this work offers the reader much new material about Pound’s life, notably his amatory adventures with Nancy Cunard and Iseult MacBride Stuart, his musical relations with Katherine Ruth Heyman and Walter Morse Rummel, and his friendships with artists such as Francis Picabia, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Wyndham Lewis. The Paris years from 1921 to 1924 are presented in a novel way through the dynamic interplay in Pound’s life—both as a diary listing important events and as a series of constellations of artists, musicians, writers, and lovers.The book concludes with Pound’s eventual disenchantment with Parisian life, his writing of his first Cantos, and his removal to Mussolini’s Italy, a land that would greatly influence his tragic later years.

Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908–1925

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penn State University Press

This third and final volume of Wilhelm's life of Ezra Pound commences with Pound's departure from Paris at the height of his writing career for Italy, where he hoped to find a quieter life, and it takes him to his death in 1972. It tells of Pound's foolish support of the fascists during World War II and his subsequent incarceration by the Allies in a camp where he wrote some of his finest poetry, The Pisan Cantos. Wilhelm chronicles Pound's escape from being tried for treason on the grounds of insanity only to be remanded o St. Elizabeths Hospital for twelve years. Pound ultimately returned to Italy, where he died in 1972.
Part of Wilhelm's strength as a biographer is his deep immersion in Pound's poetry and prose, as well as his knowledge of the complexities of the publishing history of Pound's work. Wilhelm quotes extensively from Pound's poetry, with many illuminating comments on the biographical background on the Cantos. He also discusses Pound's influence on an entire generation of poets ranging from Robert Lowell to Allen Ginsberg.

Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years, 1925–1972

Cruelest Month: Spring, Nature and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics

Publisher

The later cantos of Ezra Pound

Walker

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Gay and lesbian poetry (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

History & Criticism

Garland Publishing, Inc.

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Gay and Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo (Reference Library of the Humanities)

Routledge

Dante and Pound: The Epic of Judgement

Poetry

Natl Poetry Foundation

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