Collection ID: LMC 1870
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Summary

Abstract:
The Pound mss. IV consist of articles, poems, plays, and other writings by various authors that were sent to Ezra or Dorothy Pound by those authors.
Extent:
60 Items
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Pound mss. IV, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic and one of the leaders of the early modernist movement. Born in Idaho, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and went on to teach briefly at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana before traveling overseas and living in London, Paris, and Italy, then returning to the States in 1945. Pound went back to Italy in 1958 and died in Venice in 1972.

Scope and Content:

Included is a carbon typescript of Noel Stock's The Life of Ezra Pound ( London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970) with annotations and corrections by Dorothy Pound. Other authors represented include Louis Dudek, Robert Duncan, Achilles Fang, Giovanni Giovannini, Raymond Hughes, Hugh Kenner, D.D. Paige, Desmond Stewart, Henry Swabey, Peter Whigham, Robert McNair Wilson, and Stanislaus Yankowski.

Note on Indexing Term - "Literature--translating": Includes translations of works in various languages.

Acquisition information:
Gift. Omar S. Pound, Princeton, New Jersey. 1986
Processing information:

Processed by staff.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged alphabetically by author.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Pound mss. IV, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu