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1 online resource (348 pages) |
Contents |
Illustrations; Prologue: The Order of the Brothers Minor; 1 Initiation; 2 The Bourgeois State of Mind; 3 Symbolism in Its Profounder Sense; 4 War Poets by the Waste Moor; 5 Poems Cold and Passionate as the Dawn; 6 Tragic Generations; 7 Dialogues with the Dead; 8 Theatre Business; 9 Ghosts Patched with Histories; Epilogue: The Secret Society of Modernism; Notes; Index |
Summary |
Although readers of modern literature have always known about the collaboration of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the crucial winters these poets spent living together in Stone Cottage in Sussex (1913-1916) have remained a mystery. Working from a large base of previously unpublished material, James Longenbach presents for the first time the untold story of these three winters. Inside the secret world of Stone Cottage, Pound's Imagist poems were inextricably linked to Yeats's studies in spiritualism and magic, and early drafts of The Cantos reveal that the poem began in response to the same esoteri |
Analysis |
Pound, Ezra |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Influence
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast |
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, Irish
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Modernism (Literature)
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Poets, American
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Sussex (England) -- Intellectual life
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England -- Sussex
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Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780198021636 |
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0198021631 |
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9781601297945 |
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1601297947 |
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1423737369 |
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9781423737360 |
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128052541X |
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9781280525414 |
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