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Author Longenbach, James

Title Stone Cottage : Pound, Yeats, and Modernism
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 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 Working from a large base of previously unpublished material, James Longenbach presents for the first time the untold story of these three winters.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
Notes English
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Subject Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Influence
SUBJECT Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, Irish
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Modernism (Literature)
Poets, American
SUBJECT Sussex (England) -- Intellectual life
Subject England -- Sussex
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198021636
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