Ezra Pound

...several-hour excursion from the bustle of St. Mark's Square. But to be worthwhile, you should either be a huge fan of cemeteries or of Ezra Pound or Stravinsky, since they're buried here. It can be reached from vaporetto 42 or 52 from the...

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...Harriet [Tubman], the stars / throw down shanks--: teach the sonnet's a cell --: now try to escape --" "]OPEN INTERVAL[" Like Ezra Pound at his rhythmic best, she converts the raw data of fields of knowledge to pure musicality, to...

In this article: National Book Award, John Goodricke, New York, Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, and Algol

...Buy this book) The final volume of interviews with some of the world's greatest authors and poets, including P. G. Wodehouse, Ezra Pound, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson. Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics by David...

In this article: Hugo Young, David Rothkopf, Ken Livingstone, Margaret Thatcher, Superclass, and The Sunday Times

...including the cemetery of St Michele aEUR" the "island of the dead" where ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky and Ezra Pound are buried aEUR" before making its way anti-clockwise around the "mainland". This is where a map of...

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...many prominent members of the American expat community (Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein). In the mid-1920s, Ray came up with his "rayographs," photos that he manipulated...

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...E. B. White on Charlotte's Web ("Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down"); Ezra Pound talking about Disney's "squirrel film" Perri and praising "the Confucian side of Disney" as...

In this article: The Paris Review, William Faulkner, Bill Buford, John Ashbery, William Styron, Blandings Castle, and Midnight's Children

...to congratulate him I said that, after 50 years, he was still "il miglior fabbro". This phrase, copied from T . S . Eliot's tribute to Ezra Pound, was inscribed in a book given to Shaun in 1943 by the members of the Hut 8 Crib Section at...

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...title pointed to the collage method Eliot used. He picked it up from his mentor ("il miglior fabbro"), Ezra Pound. Whole tracts of Pound's Cantos are "found" passages lifted verbatim from secondary sources. So too Eliot's poem is a...

In this article: Andrew Motion, Damien Hirst, Our Mutual Friend, London university, and Siegfried Sassoon

...styles in American fiction was a joint creation, we now know. There have been previous examples of such creative editing, most notably Ezra Pound's liberation of The Waste Land, revealed in the 1971 facsimile edition of the manuscript. But...

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...his publishers would, politely, refuse. There is much humour ("I hope you are enjoying April," he writes to T S Eliot, while Ezra Pound is "like a resurrected Lazarus"). Here, too, are the tragedies of Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill,...

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