Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis

by Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer (Editor)

Overview

The friendship of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis began in London in 1909, survived two European wars and the rise and fall of the totalitarian governments both men misguidedly supported, and lasted through Pound's years of confinement at St. Elizabeths, to Lewis's death in 1957. In Pound/Lewis, their correspondence of five decades is gathered for the first time; it proves a revealing reflection of their intense, always professional, mutual regard.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811209328
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	06/17/1985
Series:	The Correspondence of Ezra Pound
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1090L (what's this?)

About the Author

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.