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Tag Archives: Ezra Pound
“Ulysses and Telemachus”
Ezra Pound – one of Joyce’s greatest champions and supporters: The action takes place in one day … in a single place, Dublin. Telemachus wanders beside the shore of the loud and roaring sea; he sees the midwives with their … Continue reading
Rosalind Russell 3: “The old men with beautiful manners”
Another excerpt from Rosalind Russell’s Life Is a Banquet. Here she talks about her father. The age he lived in was right for him; he never should have been in any other. He went to church in the Prince Albert … Continue reading
Pound on Ulysses
“In a single chapter he discharges all the cliches of the English language like an uninterrupted river.” — Ezra Pound
Commonplace
“Now there is clarity. There is the harvest of having written twenty novels first.” — Ezra Pound on Thomas Hardy’s poems.
Ezra Pound on Joyce
“I respect Mr. Joyce’s integrity as an author in that he has not taken the easy part. I never had any respect for his common sense or for his intelligence, apart from his gifts as a writer.” — Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound on Joyce and Ulysses
Ezra Pound, who championied Joyce’s work, relentlessly, before it was popular to do so: “Joyce — pleasing; after the first shell of cantankerous Irishman, I got the impression that the real man is the author of Chamber Music, the sensitive. … Continue reading
“We’ll print it if it’s the last effort of our lives”
From Richard Ellmann’s biography James Joyce: Joyce plunged back into work on Ulysses. The early chapters had been brought to the point where they could be published. He entered into correspondence with Miss Weaver and [Ezra] Pound about the possibility … Continue reading
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Pound on Hardy
Now there is clarity. There is the harvest of having written 20 novels first. — Ezra Pound on Thomas Hardy’s poems
Intimidated by Ezra Pound
“Do not retell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose.” — Ezra Pound I know Pound through his reputation for being extremely generous and supportive of up-and-coming artists. He was like a relentless bull-dog manager for … Continue reading