The Bughouse - The poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound

An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial: a genius writer - 'The most important living poet in the English language' according to T. S. Eliot - but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world's most unorthodox literary salon: convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound - the artistic flair, the profound human flaws - whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Swift, Swift Daniel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780099593355
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959335-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: literary, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fascism & Nazism, Modernism, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Far-right political ideologies and movements, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets