Pound/Williams (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1907-1963
- Setting: Philadelphia; Rutherford, New Jersey; France; Italy; and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Ezra Pound, Dorothy Shakespear, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Robert McAlmon, James Laughlin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Family or family life, Politics, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Letter writing, Creative process, Treason
- Locales: France, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, D.C., Italy, New Jersey
Witemeyer’s thoughtfully edited collection of letters between Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams over a nearly sixty- year span is arranged in five chronological sections. Part 1 covers the years 1907 to 1920; part 2, 1921 to 1932; part 3, 1933 to 1941; part 4, 1945 to 1951; and part 5, 1952 to 1963, the year William Carlos Williams died. Each of these sections begins with an overview of the period upon which the letters in that section focus, setting biographical and historical contexts.
Witemeyer culled from a body of 535 items the 169 letters he thinks offer the most...
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