This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering...
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This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi.Pound wrote to John Quinn-a New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual
Online-Ressource (xi, 238 p., [8] p. of plates),
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index
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Contents; Notes on the Editing; Introduction From Henry James to Ezra Pound: John Quinn and the Art of Patronage; I Artist and Patron (1915); II "Our Renaissance" (1916); III War and Civilization (1917); IV The End of an Era (1918); V Bel Esprit (1919-1924); Selected Bibliography; Index
