Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce - Softcover

Ezra Pound; James Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811201597 ISBN 13: 9780811201599

Publisher: New Directions, 1970

Synopsis

The Letters from Ezra Pound to James Joyce with Pound's Essays on Joyce. Edited and with commentary by Forrest Read.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce with Pound's critical essays and articles about Joyce. This is the record of one of the most interesting personal relationships of modern literature. Between 1913, when Yeats first called Joyces's work to Pound's attention, an 1920 there was a steady flow of letters, in which we see Pound finding publishers for Joyce, collecting money for him, defending him against censorship, even sending spare clothes. More than sixty letters from Pound to Joyce have survived, while those from Joyce to pound will be found in the Viking Press Joyce correspondence volumes.

About the Author:

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin’s first letter to Pound, he wrote: “Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of ‘noble caring’ for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US.” Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0811201597
• ISBN 13: 9780811201599
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Forrest Read