Stone Cottage - Pound, Yeats, and Modernism

Zusatztext 'In its judiciousness, humaneness and gracefully borne learning (the book) calls to mind the late Richard Ellman at the height of his powers. It is at once an imposing piece of research, a fundamental contribution to the study of early Modernism, and a deftly told narrative that abounds in pathos, irony, and outright comedy. This book will permanently and radically alter the received wisdom about Pound's relation to Yeats.' Frederick Crews, University of California at Berkeley Klappentext 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 Working from a large base of previously unpublished material, James Longenbach presents for the first time the untold story of these three winters.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 thesame esoteric texts that shaped Yeats's visionary system. At the same time, Yeats's autobiographies and Noh-style plays took shape with Pound's assistance. Having retreated to Sussex to escape the flurry of wartime London, both poets tracked the progress of the Great War and in response wrotepoems--some unpublished until now--that directly address the poet's political function. More than the story of a literary friendship, Stone Cottage explores the Pound-Yeats connection within the larger context of modern literature and culture, illuminating work that ranks with the greatestachievements of modernism. Zusammenfassung James Longenbach tells the virtually untold story of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's close collaboration in a Sussex cottage during the winters of 1913-1916, offering numerous new insights into this "secret society" of like minds whose literary production and aristocratic ways set the tone of Modernism....

Product details

• Authors: James Longenbach, James (Associate Professor of English Longenbach, Longenbach James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.1991
• EAN: 9780195066623
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506662-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Biography: literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ireland, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, First World War, 1914-1918, C 1900 - C 1914, Literary studies: poetry and poets, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)