Autograph manuscripts and notebooks, corrected and revised, of Pound's original drafts for the poems that were eventually published as the Pisan Cantos, written during his confinement at the U.S. Army's Disciplinary Training Center (DTC) in Pisa, Italy.
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet. and Purchased from Mary de Rachewiltz, 1981.
Subject (Name):
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 Political and social views and Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Pisan cantos
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Poets, American--20th century
Partial drafts, holograph, corrected, circa 1889 to 1891.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Christie's sale, New York, 2010 December 3, lot 559) on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 2010. and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author.
Lola Ridge was an American poet born in Ireland and raised in Australia. Her published works include Ghetto and Other Poems (1918); Red Flag (1927); Firehead (1929); and Dance of Fire (1935). Despite frequent ill health, she was associated with Harold Loeb and others in editing the little magazine Broom (1921-24), and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934. and The nine letters contain thanks for positive reviews of Ridge's work by Jones, and praise of Evelyn Scott's novels, which Ridge hoped Jones would review. The 1930 letter solicits Jones's help for Leon Srabian Hearld, a young Armenian writer.
Subject (Name):
Hearld, Leon Srabian, Jones, Llewellyn,--1884-1961, Ridge, Lola,--1883-1941, and Scott, Evelyn,--1893-1963
Subject (Topic):
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence, Women novelists, American--20th century, and Women poets, American--20th century
Lola Ridge was an American poet born in Ireland and raised in Australia. Her published works include Ghetto and Other Poems (1918); Red Flag (1927); Firehead (1929); and Dance of Fire (1935). Despite frequent ill health, she was associated with Harold Loeb and others in editing the little magazine Broom (1921-24), and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934. and The nine letters contain thanks for positive reviews of Ridge's work by Jones, and praise of Evelyn Scott's novels, which Ridge hoped Jones would review. The 1930 letter solicits Jones's help for Leon Srabian Hearld, a young Armenian writer.
Subject (Name):
Hearld, Leon Srabian, Jones, Llewellyn,--1884-1961, Ridge, Lola,--1883-1941, and Scott, Evelyn,--1893-1963
Subject (Topic):
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence, Women novelists, American--20th century, and Women poets, American--20th century
