The Life of Ezra PoundFirst published in 1970, this is a detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of ‘the modern movement’, a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, Hemingway, an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. As a critic of modern society his far-reaching and controversial theories on politics, economics and religion led him to broadcast over Rome Radio during the Second World War, after which he was indicted for treason but declared insane by an American court. He then spent more than twelve years in St Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C. In 1958 the changes against him were dropped and he returned to Italy where he had lived between 1924 and 1945. |
Contents
I Childhood 18851901 | 1 |
II University 19011907 | 12 |
III From Crawfordsville to Venice 19071908 | 36 |
IV London 19081909 | 53 |
V The Spirit of Romance 19091910 | 68 |
VI Return to America 19101911 | 89 |
VII Paris Italy Germany 1911 | 96 |
VIII Hulme and Orage 19111912 | 104 |
XIII Major C H Douglas 19181921 | 221 |
XIV Paris 19211924 | 237 |
XV Rapallo 19241929 | 257 |
XVI The Cantos 19301934 | 286 |
XVII Music 19331936 | 316 |
XVIII Politics and Economics 19371939 | 342 |
XIX The War Years 19391943 | 372 |
XX Out of the Ruins 19431945 | 400 |