The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 1915-1924
- ISBN-10
- 6612919930
- ISBN-13
- 9786612919930
- Category
- Critics
- Pages
- 263
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Author
- Ezra Pound
Description
This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi. Pound wrote to John Quinn-a New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual.
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