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Ezra Pound: letters to Igor de Rachewiltz.

Publisher English Association
Publication Southerly
Subject Literature/writing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0038-3732
Issues per Year 4
Volume 67
Issue 3
Published 2007-09-22

Role Type Name
Author n/a David Brooks
Person Appreciation Ezra Pound

People would keep telling me during my years teaching at the Australian National University (not many people admittedly, since few realised the connections) that an in-law of Pound's, Igor de Rachewiltz, was a researcher in the Coombs Building. I had written my PhD on Pound and was of course most interested. Clearly, Igor was the brother of Boris de Rachewiltz, whom Pound's daughter Mary had married shortly after the war, but in that strange way in which some people put off anticipated pleasures it was some time before I attempted to make contact. Eventually a visit from the American...

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