Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1885-10-30 - 1972-11-01
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), expatriate American poet and critic.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Olivia Rossetti Agresti Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 173
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence between Agresti and Pound documenting their political and economic views; their opinions of Mussolini and Fascism; and their disagreements on antisemitism and the Catholic Church. Other topics include news of family and mutual friends and Pound's confinement at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, as well as various efforts made on his behalf to free him. There are also letters from Dorothy Pound and several other friends of Pound, including T. S. Eliot; a few short...
Dates:
1947-1963
Dial/Scofield Thayer papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 34
Overview:
The papers document the life and activities of Scofield Thayer and the history of Dial Magazine under his ownership. They include the surviving Dial office files, with correspondence by Alyse Gregory, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes, Kenneth Burke, and J. Sibley Watson; manuscripts, typescripts and corrected galleys of submissions to the magazine by authors including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, George Santayana, William Butler Yeats, and Glenway Wescott; and advertising material....
Dates:
1879-1982, bulk 1920-1925
Ezra Pound miscellany
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 182
Overview:
The collection consists of letters and a few manuscripts by or related to Ezra Pound. Correspondents include Ubaldo degli Uberti; Ethel de Courcy Duncan; Robert Duncan; Gladys Hines; Lewis Maverick; Donald J. Paquette; Odon Por; and Louis Zukofsky. Manuscripts include holographs of "To Our Lady of Vicarious Atonement" and "What I Feel about Walt Whitman" by Pound and biographical notes on Pound by Lewis Maverick.
Dates:
1909-1973
Ezra Pound Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 43
Overview:
The Ezra Pound Papers document the literary career and political interests of Ezra Pound. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, George Antheil, William Bird, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Laughlin, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore, Odon Por, and Henry Swabey. The collection contains manuscripts of many of Pound's works, including the Cantos, Guide to Kulchur, and scripts of Pound's wartime radio broadcasts.
Dates:
1868-1976
Olga Rudge papers : addition
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 241
Overview:
Manuscripts.
Dates:
1819-1996
Bride Scratton/Peter Whigham papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 179
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence, writings and personal papers of Bride Scratton and of Peter Whigham, her nephew by marriage. The Scratton papers include letters from Ezra Pound to Scratton discussing their personal relationship, her writings, and Pound's social and political theories; manuscripts and typescripts of short stories and descriptive sketches by Scratton and typescript carbons of three Cantos by Pound; and a small amount of personal papers, including a copy of Scratton's...
Dates:
1894-1966