... Bishop poetry comedy humour audience sympathy Henri Bergson Ezra Pound Elizabeth Bishop’s laughter in her poems often appears to be at someone else’s expense. But it generally gives way to self-critique. Humour in Bishop’s work combines empathy with judgement: her speakers’ failures...

...Chapter 5 explores how Lawrence understood the necessity of self-fashioning and self-advertisement. The chapter concentrates on Lawrence’s early connections with esoteric poetry circles in literary London as he mixed with Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Florence Farr, Ernest and Grace Rhys and Rachel...

... formative influence on T. S. Eliot’s early poetry. In the concluding section Eliot, Yeats, and Ezra Pound question the boundaries between art and life as much as they reconsider Victorian Aestheticism and Decadence: artificiality is eventually elegised, recast and re-aestheticised under a new mode...

...This chapter explores the second implication of Ezra Pound's designation of Henry James as translator: that Pound's own ‘translations’ fully imply the sort of cross-cultural investigations and displacements associated with James. It shows how Pound's translations from the Chinese and Italian...

...This chapter offers a personal account of how its author came to edit Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008). In doing so it reflects on how previous editions of correspondence were edited, including The Letters of Ezra Pound...

...This chapter examines how young poets and artists became interested in Chinese art that in the 1910s was expressed in the tenets of Vorticism. When Ezra Pound came to London in 1908 he got involved in the circle of British poets, artists and critics who held regular social gatherings at the Vienna...

... Aestheticism Pre-Raphaelitism Symbolism Ezra Pound Amy Lowell H. D Walt Whitman Modernism this chapter places lawrence’s poetics, as developed in his poetry, in relation to his responses to other poets and to particular poetic tendencies and movements from his past and present, such as Pre...

...The socio-political crises of the 1930s greatly intensified the apocalyptic tendencies within modernism. During the 1930s and into the Second World War, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound carried on an extended debate about how this apocalyptic crisis of civilization should be understood and resolved...

... The Delphinian Quarterly Ezra Pound Wyndham Lewis and Radical Modernism Sherry Gourmont Rémy de ‘Great Bass’ Pound’s theory Guide to Kulchur Pound Natural Philosophy of Love Gourmont Sherry Vincent Carr Helen Cavalcanti Guido Dolmetsch Arnold DuPlessis Rachel Blau emotion music and communication...

...‘Poetry is a composition of words set to music’ wrote poet (and music critic) Ezra Pound. ‘Most other definitions of it are indefensible, or metaphysical.’ Taking the troubadours as his example (and the opening quotation is a version of Dante), Pound became evangelist and pivot for a renewed...

... Anderson Margaret Besant Annie Gurdjieff G I Leadbeater C W Steiner Rudolf Vaget Hans Rudolf Scaff Susan von Rohr Platt Len Sword Helen Fournier d’Albe E E optophone Nagai Kaori Schrenck Notzing Albert von Yeats W B Scriabin Alexander Wheatstone Charles Sound Ezra Pound Theosophy Thomas...

...This chapter explores the sonic possibilities of the Chinese characters in Ezra Pound’s late cantos. Specifically it examines how Pound understood Chinese sound in his late career, and traces what he did with this new understanding in the late cantos. Despite Pound’s enthusiasm for Chinese sound...

...In 1933, Ezra Pound deplored modernism’s transition from “small honest magazines” to large-scale publishing houses. He described Tauchnitz and Albatross as “parasitic publishers,” eager to exploit James Joyce’s fame to make money. But this story leaves aside a central element: the fact that Joyce...

... William Carlos Dowson Ernest Rossetti Dante Gabriel Symons Arthur Tomson Graham R Rosamund Marriott Watson née Armytage villanelle form Baudelaire Charles Carr Helen The Verse Revolutionaries Ezra Pound H D and The Imagists Celtic tradition Davidson John high modernism Johnson Lionel...

... Brown Pam Farrell Michael Whittaker Alison Harry Hooton W. C. Williams Ern Malley 1940s in poetry Ezra Pound Jean-Jacques Lecercle Angry Penguins New sign-posts stretch out the road that lingers Yet on the spool. New images distort Our creeping disjunct minds to incredible patterns – Ern...

... inheritor of the Arts and Crafts movement who promotes a materialization and incarnation of the word while asserting the artist’s status as a ‘maker’. This prepares the ground for a final part on Ezra Pound, whose view of poetry as an apprenticeship epitomises the modern reach of the Carlylean principle. He...

... like Ezra Pound and film theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Sergei Eisenstein use the visual languages of China and of Egypt as a more primal or direct alternative to written words. But Freud, Proust, and the later Eisenstein conversely emphasize the phonetic qualities of Egyptian writing, its...

...This chapter considers ectoplasm in relation to the materiality of film, and ask what this materiality does to questions of mimesis. It looks at Ezra Pound's conflicted attitude to film, via both his critical writing and The Cantos, and compares it to the aesthetics and politics...

...This chapter stresses the significance of the precedent of Henry James for Ezra Pound's own insufficiently studied attempts at auto-ethnography, and for his sense of American cultural identity. Examining how James's The American Scene provides a model for Pound's ‘Patria Mia...

...-War San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer. His After Lorca is an adaptation of the Spanish poet explicitly modeled on Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius. After Lorca evolves into an intricate set of polemical negotiations. Spicer is wholly...