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050 00 $aPS3531.O82$bZ4827 1996
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245 00 $aPound/Cummings :$bthe correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings /$cedited by Barry Ahearn.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c1996.
263 $a9610
300 $axii, 442 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aEzra Pound and E. E. Cummings carried on a long and varied correspondence from the 1920s until Cummings's death in 1962. This volume collects all of the letters from this important friendship in the history of modern poetry.
520 8 $aThroughout the correspondence both poets reveal themselves and their beliefs to a remarkable degree. Pound entrusted to Cummings details of his political outlook in the 1930s and 1940s, including his opinions about Mussolini's Italy. The letters to Cummings also shed new light on the question of Pound's sanity after World War II. Although he was diagnosed as mentally unfit, the letters generally show no evidence of paranoia, only of his characteristic eccentricity.
520 8 $aSimilarly, these letters should provoke a reevaluation of Cummings. Critics have treated Cummings's political views as either strictly private matters or merely incidental to his art. The letters, however, show that Cummings's radically conservative political opinions are wholly consistent with his poetics, and raise the question of the relation between Cummings's political principles and his enthusiasm for particular forms (and particular stars) of mass entertainment.
520 8 $aIn addition to their political revelations, the letters are steeped in the literary climate - and literary gossip - of the times. Pound comments often and candidly on Cummings's poetry and prose; both Pound and Cummings send light verse to each other. And the poets exchange anecdotes about such figures as Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Edmund Grosse, Max Eastman, and Aldous Huxley, among other writers.
520 8 $aThere is much here to interest and delight both fans and foes of Pound and Cummings. The book will be of primary importance to students and scholars of modern poetry, especially those who emphasize the intersection of literary works and political history.
600 10 $aPound, Ezra,$d1885-1972$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCummings, E. E.$q(Edward Estlin),$d1894-1962$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vCorrespondence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109430
700 1 $aAhearn, Barry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81087280
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3531.O82$iZ4827 1996