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Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Title
Pound mss., 1919-1924

Collection No.
LMC 1866

Extent
219 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Pound mss., 1919-1924, consist primarily of letters to Ezra Loomis Pound, 1885-1972, poet, from various literary associates and friends. Some of the correspondence concerns the legal troubles of James Joyce and his difficulties with the publication of his novel Ulysses.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic and one of the leaders of the early modernist movement. Born in Idaho, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and went on to teach briefly at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana before traveling overseas. Living in London from 1908-1920, Pound became not only an accomplished poet but also a mentor to writers such as Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce. Pound was ultimately responsible for the 1918 serialization of Joyce's censored, controversial Ulysses.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into two series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondents include: Richard Aldington, Margaret Anderson, George Antheil, Natalie Clifford Barney, Sally Bird, William Augustus Bird, Basil Bunting, Kenneth Burke, Jean Cocteau, Nancy Clara Cunard, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Vivienne (Haigh-Wood) Eliot, Desmond Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Thomas Hardy, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Grace (Hall) Hemingway, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Wyndham Lewis, Horace Brisbin Liveright, Victor M. Llona, Berthe Isabel Susanna Flora (Capel) Stern, baroness Michelham, Paul Morand, Stanley Morison, Ezra Loomis Pound, John Quinn, Samuel Roth, George Bernard Shaw, Society of Authors, Scofield Thayer, William Carlos Williams, Bernard Cyril Windeler, and William Butler Yeats.

Three writings by Ezra Pound complete the collection: His translation of Paul Morand's Ouvert la nuit; a translation of Tendres stocks, preface de Marcel Proust, also by Morand; and "Translator's Postscript," published in Pound's translation of Rémy de Gourmont's The Natural Philosophy of Love (Lilly PQ2266 .P5713, pp. 169-180).

• Indexing Terms

• • Names
  • Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
  • Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 --Correspondence.
  • Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
  • Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
  • Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 --Correspondence.
  • Anderson, Margaret C. --Correspondence.
  • Antheil, George, 1900-1959 --Correspondence.
  • Barney, Natalie Clifford --Correspondence.
  • Bird, Sally --Correspondence.
  • Bird, William A. --Correspondence.
  • Bunting, Basil --Correspondence.
  • Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 --Correspondence.
  • Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 --Correspondence.
  • Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 --Correspondence.
  • Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 --Correspondence.
  • Eliot, Vivienne, 1888-1947 --Correspondence.
  • FitzGerald, Desmond, 1888-1947 --Correspondence.
  • Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 --Correspondence.
  • Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 --Correspondence.
  • Hemingway, Clarence Edmunds, -1928 --Correspondence.
  • Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Correspondence.
  • Hemingway, Grace Hall --Correspondence.
  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 --Correspondence.
  • Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 --Correspondence.
  • Liveright, Horace Brisbin, 1886-1933 --Correspondence.
  • Llona, Victor --Correspondence.
  • Stern, Berthe Isabel Susanna Flora Capel --Correspondence.
  • Stern, Aimee Geraldine Bradshaw, baroness Michelham --Correspondence.
  • Morand, Paul, 1888-1976 --Correspondence.
  • Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967 --Correspondence.
  • Quinn, John, 1870-1924 --Correspondence.
  • Roth, Samuel, 1893-1974 --Correspondence.
  • Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 --Correspondence.
  • Thayer, Scofield, 1889-1982 --Correspondence.
  • Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 --Correspondence.
  • Windeler, B. Cyril --Correspondence.
  • Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 --Correspondence.
  • Morand, Paul, 1888-1976. Ouvert la nuit.
  • Morand, Paul, 1888-1976. Tendres stocks.
  • Gourmont, Remy de, 1858-1915. Physique de l'amour.
• • Topics
  • Society of Authors (Great Britain)--Correspondence.
  • Literature--translating

Related Material

See Pound mss. II, Pound mss. III, Pound mss. IV, Pound mss. V, Pound mss. VI, Pound mss. VII,, also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

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